nucleus

nucleus is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 14 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
2. noun. The body or the head of a comet.
3. noun. An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.
4. noun. A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.
5. noun. A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.
6. noun. The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.
7. noun. The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.
8. noun. A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.
9. noun. the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex
10. noun. a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

    Synonyms: karyon

11. noun. any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord
12. noun. a small group of indispensable persons or things

    "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

    Synonyms: core

13. noun. the positively charged dense center of an atom
14. noun. (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

Synonyms

karyon, core

Common word forms

nucleuses

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