primer

primer is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, primes. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, primes
2. noun. an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
3. adjective. First; original; primary.
4. noun. Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
5. noun. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
6. noun. A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
7. noun. the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface

   Synonyms: ground, priming, undercoat

8. noun. any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant

   Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, priming

9. noun. an introductory textbook

Synonyms

ground, priming, undercoat, fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee

Common word forms

primers

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