osculate

osculate is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To kiss. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To kiss.
2. transitive verb. To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
3. intransitive verb. To kiss one another; to kiss.
4. intransitive verb. To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
5. intransitive verb. To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
6. verb. touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.

   "The newly married couple kissed"

   "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"

   Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog

7. verb. have at least three points in common with

   "one curve osculates the other"

   "these two surfaces osculate"

8. verb. be intermediate between two taxonomic groups

   "These species osculate"

Synonyms

buss, kiss, snog

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in osculate:

lacteous, locustae

Common word forms

osculated, osculates, osculating

Words from these letters

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