oval

oval is a 4-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions. 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.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
2. adjective. Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
3. adjective. Broadly elliptical.
4. noun. A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
5. noun. a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it

   "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant"

   Synonyms: ellipse

6. adjective. rounded like an egg

   Synonyms: elliptic, elliptical, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate

Synonyms

ellipse, elliptic, elliptical, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate

Common word forms

ovals, ovally, ovality, ovalize, ovalness

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for OVAL lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.