mouth

mouth is a 5-letter English word with 30 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 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 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 30 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
2. noun. An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture
3. noun. The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.
4. noun. The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
5. noun. The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
6. noun. The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
7. noun. The entrance into a harbor.
8. noun. The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
9. noun. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
10. noun. Cry; voice.
11. noun. Speech; language; testimony.
12. noun. A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
13. transitive verb. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
14. transitive verb. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
15. transitive verb. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
16. transitive verb. To make mouths at.
17. intransitive verb. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
18. intransitive verb. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.
19. intransitive verb. To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
20. noun. the opening of a jar or bottle

    "the jar had a wide mouth"

21. noun. the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening

    "she wiped lipstick from her mouth"

22. noun. the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge

    "he stuffed his mouth with candy"

23. noun. an impudent or insolent rejoinder

    "don't give me any of your sass"

    Synonyms: backtalk, lip, sass, sassing

24. noun. the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water

    "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson"

25. noun. an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)

    "he rode into the mouth of the canyon"

    "they built a fire at the mouth of the cave"

26. noun. a person conceived as a consumer of food

    "he has four mouths to feed"

27. noun. a spokesperson (as a lawyer)

    Synonyms: mouthpiece

28. verb. express in speech

    "She talks a lot of nonsense"

    "This depressed patient does not verbalize"

    Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize

29. verb. articulate silently; form words with the lips only

    "She mouthed a swear word"

30. verb. touch with the mouth

Synonyms

backtalk, lip, sass, sassing, mouthpiece, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize

Common word forms

mouths, mouthed, mouther, mouthes, mouthful, mouthing, mouthable, mouthless

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