secretion

secretion is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods. Face value is 11 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.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
2. noun. The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
3. noun. Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
4. noun. a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell
5. noun. the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance

   Synonyms: secernment

Synonyms

secernment

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in secretion:

erections, necrotise, neoterics, resection

Common word forms

secretions, secretional

Words from these letters

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