mantle

mantle is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 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 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
2. noun. Same as Mantling.
3. noun. The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
4. noun. Any free, outer membrane.
5. noun. The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6. noun. A mantel. See Mantel.
7. noun. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
8. noun. A penstock for a water wheel.
9. transitive verb. To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
10. intransitive verb. To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
11. intransitive verb. To spread out; -- said of wings.
12. intransitive verb. To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
13. intransitive verb. To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
14. noun. a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

    Synonyms: cape

15. noun. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

    Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, pall

16. noun. shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

    "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece"

    Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiece

17. noun. (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

    Synonyms: pallium

18. noun. the cloak as a symbol of authority

    "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"

19. noun. anything that covers

    "there was a blanket of snow"

    Synonyms: blanket

20. noun. the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
21. noun. United States baseball player (1931-1997)
22. verb. cover like a mantle

    "The ivy mantles the building"

23. verb. spread over a surface, like a mantle

Synonyms

cape, curtain, drape, drapery, pall, chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiece, pallium, blanket

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mantle:

lament, manlet, mantel, mental

Common word forms

mantled, mantles, mantling

Words from these letters

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