mercury
mercury is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- noun. A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
- noun. A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
- noun. One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
- noun. A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
- noun. Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
- noun. A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
- transitive verb. To wash with a preparation of mercury.
- noun. temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
"the mercury was falling rapidly"
- noun. the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
- noun. (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes
- noun. a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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