spray

spray is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small shoot or branch; a twig. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small shoot or branch; a twig.
2. noun. A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
3. noun. A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
4. noun. A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
5. transitive verb. Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
6. transitive verb. A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
7. transitive verb. An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
8. transitive verb. To let fall in the form of spray.
9. transitive verb. To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.
10. noun. a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist

    Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer

11. noun. flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage
12. noun. a jet of vapor
13. noun. a quantity of small objects flying through the air

    "a spray of bullets"

    Synonyms: spraying

14. noun. a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying
15. noun. water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall
16. verb. scatter in a mass or jet of droplets

    "spray water on someone"

    "spray paint on the wall"

17. verb. cover by spraying with a liquid

    "spray the wall with paint"

18. verb. be discharged in sprays of liquid

    "Water sprayed all over the floor"

Synonyms

atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer, spraying

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spray:

prays, raspy, spary

Common word forms

sprays, sprayed, sprayer, sprayful, spraying, sprayless

Words from these letters

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