nickel
nickel is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 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 bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
- noun. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
- noun. a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
- noun. five dollars worth of a drug
"a nickel bag of drugs"
"a nickel deck of heroin"
- noun. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
- verb. plate with nickel
"nickel the plate"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in nickel:
Common word forms
nickels, nickeled, nickeling, nickelise, nickelize, nickelled, nickelous, nickelling
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