tang

tang is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus). Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 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 7 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
2. noun. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
3. noun. Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
4. noun. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
5. noun. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
6. noun. The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
7. noun. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
8. noun. The tongue of a buckle.
9. noun. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
10. transitive verb. To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
11. intransitive verb. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
12. noun. any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
13. noun. any of various coarse seaweeds
14. noun. brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
15. noun. a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure

    Synonyms: bladderwrack

16. noun. a tart spicy quality

    Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tanginess, zest

17. noun. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

    Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack

18. noun. the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907

Synonyms

bladderwrack, nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tanginess, zest, flavor, flavour, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tang:

gant, gnat

Common word forms

tangs, tanged, tanger, tangly, tanging, tangless

Words from these letters

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