mortise
mortise is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon. Face value is 9 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.
Definitions
- noun. A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
- transitive verb. To cut or make a mortisein.
- transitive verb. To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
- noun. a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint
- verb. join by a tenon and mortise
- verb. cut a hole for a tenon in
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mortise:
Common word forms
mortised, mortiser, mortises, mortising
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