pot

pot is a 3-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.
2. noun. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
3. noun. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
4. noun. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
5. noun. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
6. noun. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
7. noun. A perforated cask for draining sugar.
8. noun. A size of paper. See Pott.
9. transitive verb. To place or inclose in pots
10. transitive verb. To preserve seasoned in pots.
11. transitive verb. To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
12. transitive verb. To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
13. transitive verb. To pocket.
14. intransitive verb. To tipple; to drink.
15. noun. metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
16. noun. street names for marijuana

    Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, locoweed, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed

17. noun. a container in which plants are cultivated

    Synonyms: flowerpot

18. noun. a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets

    Synonyms: potentiometer

19. noun. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

    Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, potty, stool, throne, toilet

20. noun. slang for a paunch

    Synonyms: corporation, potbelly, tummy

21. noun. the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)

    Synonyms: jackpot, kitty

22. noun. the quantity contained in a pot

    Synonyms: potful

23. noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"

    "a deal of trouble"

    Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle

24. verb. plant in a pot

    "He potted the palm"

Synonyms

dope, gage, grass, locoweed, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed, flowerpot, potentiometer, can, commode, crapper, potty, stool, throne, toilet, corporation, potbelly, tummy, jackpot, kitty, potful

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pot:

opt, pto, top

Common word forms

pots, poter, potful, potted, potter, potable, potting

Words from these letters

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