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.
Definitions
- noun. Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
- noun. Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
- noun. A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
- noun. The constellation Serpens.
- noun. 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.
- intransitive verb. To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
- transitive verb. To wind; to encircle.
- noun. limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- noun. an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
- noun. a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in serpent:
penster, present, repents, strepen
Common word forms
serpents, serpentes, serpently, serpentize
Words from these letters
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