menses

menses is a 6-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 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 10 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. plural noun. The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.
2. noun. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause--Hippocrates--Aristotle

   "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"

   "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"

   Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menstruation, menstruum, period

Synonyms

catamenia, flow, menstruation, menstruum, period

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in menses:

mesnes, semens, semsen

Common word forms

mens, mense

Words from these letters

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