litter

litter is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 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 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
2. noun. Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
3. noun. Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
4. noun. Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
5. noun. The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
6. transitive verb. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
7. transitive verb. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
8. transitive verb. To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
9. intransitive verb. To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
10. intransitive verb. To produce a litter.
11. noun. material used to provide a bed for animals

    Synonyms: bedding

12. noun. conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
13. noun. the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
14. noun. rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
15. verb. give birth to a litter of animals
16. verb. make a place messy by strewing garbage around
17. verb. strew

    "Cigar butts littered the ground"

Synonyms

bedding

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in litter:

littre, tilter, titler

Common word forms

litters, littered, litterer, littering, litterless

Words from these letters

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