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serpent
serpent is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
- 2noun
Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
- 3noun
A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
- 4noun
The constellation Serpens.
- 5noun
A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form.
- 6intransitive verb
To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
- 7transitive verb
To wind; to encircle.
- 8noun
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- 9noun
an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
- 10noun
a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited
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