pepper
pepper is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum. 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 well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.
- noun. The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.
- noun. Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.
- transitive verb. To sprinkle or season with pepper.
- transitive verb. Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds.
- intransitive verb. To fire numerous shots (at).
- noun. sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
- noun. pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- noun. any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
- noun. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
- verb. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
"pelt the speaker with questions"
- verb. add pepper to
"pepper the soup"
Synonyms
Common word forms
peppers, peppered, pepperer, peppering
Words from these letters
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