soap

soap is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
2. transitive verb. To rub or wash over with soap.
3. transitive verb. To flatter; to wheedle.
4. noun. a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
5. noun. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

   Synonyms: goop, max, scoop

6. noun. money offered as a bribe
7. verb. rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning

   Synonyms: lather

Synonyms

goop, max, scoop, lather

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in soap:

apos, opas, paso, sapo

Common word forms

soaps, soaped, soaper, soaping, soapless

Words from these letters

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