stencil

stencil is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 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 12 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.
2. transitive verb. To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
3. noun. a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below
4. verb. mark or print with a stencil

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stencil:

clients, lectins, lentisc, scintle

Common word forms

stencils, stenciled, stenciler, stenciling, stencilize, stencilled, stenciller, stencilling

Words from these letters

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