needle
needle is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 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 small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
- noun. See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
- noun. A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
- noun. One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
- noun. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- transitive verb. To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
- intransitive verb. To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
- noun. a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
- noun. a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
- noun. a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
- noun. the leaf of a conifer
- verb. goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
"He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"
- verb. prick with a needle
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in needle:
Common word forms
needled, needler, needles, needling, needleful
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