stud

stud is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc. 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.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.
2. noun. A stem; a trunk.
3. noun. An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
4. noun. A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.
5. noun. An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.
6. noun. A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
7. noun. A stud bolt.
8. noun. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
9. transitive verb. To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.
10. transitive verb. To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.
11. noun. poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
12. noun. adult male horse kept for breeding

    Synonyms: studhorse

13. noun. an upright in house framing

    Synonyms: scantling

14. noun. ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

    Synonyms: rivet

15. noun. a man who is virile and sexually active
16. verb. provide with or construct with studs

    "stud the wall"

17. verb. scatter or intersperse like dots or studs

    "Hills constellated with lights"

    Synonyms: constellate, dot

Synonyms

studhorse, scantling, rivet, constellate, dot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stud:

dust

Common word forms

studs, studly, studded, studder, studding

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for STUD lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.