milk
milk is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
- noun. A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
- noun. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
- noun. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
- transitive verb. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
- transitive verb. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
- transitive verb. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
- intransitive verb. To draw or to yield milk.
- noun. produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
- noun. a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
- noun. any of several nutritive milklike liquids
- noun. a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
- verb. take milk from female mammals
"Cows need to be milked every morning"
- verb. add milk to
"milk the tea"
- verb. exploit as much as possible
"I am milking this for all it's worth"
Common word forms
milks, milked, milken, milker, milking, milkless, milkness
Words from these letters
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