plaster

plaster is a 7-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 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 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.
2. noun. A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.
3. noun. Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.
4. transitive verb. To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.
5. transitive verb. To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.
6. transitive verb. Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.
7. noun. adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
8. noun. a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)

   "there were cracks in the plaster"

   Synonyms: plasterwork

9. noun. a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.

   Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice

10. noun. a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings
11. noun. any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs
12. verb. dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

    Synonyms: poultice

13. verb. coat with plaster

    "daub the wall"

    Synonyms: daub

14. verb. apply a heavy coat to
15. verb. apply a plaster cast to

    "plaster the broken arm"

16. verb. affix conspicuously

    "She plastered warnings all over the wall"

17. verb. cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on

    "The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters"

    "She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco"

    Synonyms: beplaster

Synonyms

plasterwork, cataplasm, poultice, daub, beplaster

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in plaster:

palster, palters, pastler, persalt, platers, psalter, spartle, stapler

Common word forms

plasters, plastered, plasterer, plastering

Words from these letters

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