stickle

stickle is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To separate combatants by intervening. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 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 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To separate combatants by intervening.
2. intransitive verb. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
3. intransitive verb. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
4. transitive verb. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
5. transitive verb. To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
6. transitive/intransitive verb. A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
7. verb. dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stickle:

keltics, stickel, tickles

Common word forms

stickled, stickler, stickles, stickling

Words from these letters

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