liquid

liquid is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
2. adjective. Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.
3. adjective. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
4. adjective. Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.
5. adjective. Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.
6. adjective. Clear; definite in terms or amount.
7. noun. A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.
8. noun. A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.
9. noun. a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r')
10. noun. the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

    Synonyms: liquidity, liquidness

11. noun. fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
12. noun. a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
13. adjective. clear and bright

    "the liquid air of a spring morning"

    "eyes shining with a liquid luster"

    Synonyms: limpid

14. adjective. in cash or easily convertible to cash

    "liquid (or fluid) assets"

    Synonyms: fluid

15. adjective. smooth and unconstrained in movement

    "a long, smooth stride"

    "the fluid motion of a cat"

    Synonyms: fluent, fluid, smooth

16. adjective. smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness

    "the liquid song of a robin"

17. adjective. changed from a solid to a liquid state

    "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow"

    Synonyms: liquified, melted

18. adjective. existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow

    "water and milk and blood are liquid substances"

19. adjective. filled or brimming with tears

    "swimming eyes"

    "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"

    Synonyms: swimming

Synonyms

liquidity, liquidness, limpid, fluid, fluent, smooth, liquified, melted, swimming

Common word forms

liquids, liquidly, liquidise, liquidity, liquidize, liquidable, liquidless, liquidness

Words from these letters

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