roller

roller is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 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 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
2. noun. A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
3. noun. One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
4. noun. A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
5. noun. A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.
6. noun. A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
7. noun. A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
8. noun. ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
9. noun. Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
10. noun. Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
11. noun. a grounder that rolls along the infield
12. noun. pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground

    Synonyms: tumbler

13. noun. Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
14. noun. a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it

    "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight"

    Synonyms: crimper, curler

15. noun. a cylinder that revolves
16. noun. a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
17. noun. a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore

    Synonyms: roll

Synonyms

tumbler, crimper, curler, roll

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in roller:

reroll

Common word forms

rollers, rollerer

Words from these letters

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