recess
recess is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 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 withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
- noun. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
- noun. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
- noun. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
- noun. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- noun. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
- noun. A sinus.
- transitive verb. To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
- noun. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- noun. a pause from doing something (as work)
"we took a 10-minute break"
"he took time out to recuperate"
- noun. an enclosure that is set back or indented
- noun. an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- noun. a small concavity
- noun. a state of abeyance or suspended business
- verb. close at the end of a session
"The court adjourned"
- verb. make a recess in
"recess the piece of wood"
- verb. put into a recess
"recess lights"
Synonyms
break, respite, niche, inlet, corner, recession, deferral, adjourn
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in recess:
Common word forms
recessed, recesser, recesses, recessing
Words from these letters
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