Dictionary Entry
machinery
machinery is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Machines, in general, or collectively. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Machines, in general, or collectively.
- 2noun
The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
- 3noun
The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.
- 4noun
The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.
- 5noun
machines or machine systems collectively
- 6noun
a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions
"the complex machinery of negotiation"
"the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in machinery:
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for MACHINERY lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.