pearl

pearl is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fringe or border. 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fringe or border.
2. transitive verb. To fringe; to border.
3. noun. A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
4. noun. Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
5. noun. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
6. noun. A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
7. noun. A light-colored tern.
8. noun. One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
9. noun. A whitish speck or film on the eye.
10. noun. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
11. noun. A size of type, between agate and diamond.
12. adjective. Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
13. transitive verb. To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
14. transitive verb. To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
15. intransitive verb. To resemble pearl or pearls.
16. intransitive verb. To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
17. noun. a shade of white the color of bleached bones

    Synonyms: bone, ivory

18. noun. a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
19. noun. a shape that is spherical and small

    "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"

    "beads of sweat on his forehead"

    Synonyms: bead, drop

20. verb. gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean

Synonyms

bone, ivory, bead, drop

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pearl:

lepra, paler, parel, parle, perla, prela, relap

Common word forms

pearls, pearled, pearler, pearling

Words from these letters

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