rubber

rubber is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, rubs. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 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 13 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, rubs.
2. noun. An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.
3. noun. A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
4. noun. A whetstone; a rubstone.
5. noun. An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.
6. noun. The cushion of an electrical machine.
7. noun. One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.
8. noun. Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.
9. noun. In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.
10. noun. India rubber; caoutchouc.
11. noun. An overshoe made of India rubber.
12. noun. a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow

    Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, gumshoe

13. noun. contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse

    Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, safe, safety

14. noun. an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
15. noun. an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products

    Synonyms: caoutchouc

16. noun. any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber
17. verb. coat or impregnate with rubber

    "rubberize fabric for rain coats"

    Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize

18. adjective. returned for lack of funds

    "a rubber check"

    "a no-good check"

Synonyms

arctic, galosh, golosh, gumshoe, condom, prophylactic, safe, safety, caoutchouc, rubberise, rubberize

Common word forms

rubbers, rubbered, rubberer, rubbering, rubberise, rubberize, rubberless

Words from these letters

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