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nasal
nasal is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the nose. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 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 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to the nose.
- 2adjective
Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
- 3noun
An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
- 4noun
A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
- 5noun
Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
- 6noun
One of the nasal bones.
- 7noun
A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
- 8noun
an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose
- 9noun
a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed
- 10adjective
sounding as if the nose were pinched
"a whining nasal voice"
- 11adjective
of or in or relating to the nose
"nasal passages"
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