steel

steel is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 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 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
2. noun. An instrument or implement made of steel
3. noun. A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
4. noun. An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
5. noun. A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
6. noun. Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
7. noun. A chalybeate medicine.
8. noun. To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
9. noun. To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
10. noun. Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
11. noun. To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
12. noun. knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
13. noun. a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

    Synonyms: blade, brand, sword

14. noun. an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
15. verb. cover, plate, or edge with steel
16. verb. get ready for something difficult or unpleasant

    Synonyms: nerve

Synonyms

blade, brand, sword, nerve

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in steel:

leets, leste, sleet, slete, stele, teels, teles

Common word forms

steels, steeled, steelen, steeler, steeling, steelless

Words from these letters

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