principal

principal is a 9-letter English word with 21 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.
2. adjective. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.
3. noun. A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.
4. noun. The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.
5. noun. A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.
6. noun. One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.
7. noun. A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
8. noun. A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.
9. noun. The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
10. noun. In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
11. noun. A heirloom; a mortuary.
12. noun. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
13. noun. One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
14. noun. A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.
15. noun. the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

    Synonyms: dealer

16. noun. the educator who has executive authority for a school

    "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

    Synonyms: head

17. noun. (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
18. noun. an actor who plays a principal role

    Synonyms: lead, star

19. noun. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

    Synonyms: corpus

20. noun. the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
21. adjective. most important element

    "the chief aim of living"

    "the main doors were of solid glass"

    Synonyms: chief, main, master, primary

Synonyms

dealer, head, lead, star, corpus, chief, main, master, primary

Common word forms

principals, principally, principality, principalness

Words from these letters

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