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

1. noun. Machines, in general, or collectively.
2. noun. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. machines or machine systems collectively
6. noun. 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:

hemicrany

Common word forms

machineries

Words from these letters

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