moult

moult is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, noun, verb & noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Face value is 7 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
2. transitive verb. To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
3. noun. The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
4. verb & noun. See Molt.
5. noun. periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles

   Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, molting, moulting

6. verb. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

   "our dog sheds every Spring"

   Synonyms: exuviate, molt, shed, slough

Synonyms

ecdysis, molt, molting, moulting, exuviate, shed, slough

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in moult:

multo

Common word forms

moults, moulted, moulten, moulter, moulting

Words from these letters

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