mitre
mitre is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and noun & verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 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 covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.
- noun. The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
- noun. A sort of base money or coin.
- transitive verb. To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.
- transitive verb. To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.
- intransitive verb. To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.
- noun & verb. See Miter.
- noun. a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions
- noun. the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made
"he covered the miter with glue before making the joint"
- noun. joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mitre:
ermit, merit, miter, remit, timer
Common word forms
mitred, mitrer, mitres, mitring
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