taper

taper is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 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 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
2. noun. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
3. adjective. Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
4. intransitive verb. To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
5. transitive verb. To make or cause to taper.
6. noun. stick of wax with a wick in the middle

   Synonyms: candle

7. noun. a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

   Synonyms: wick

8. noun. the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
9. noun. a convex shape that narrows toward a point
10. verb. diminish gradually

    "Interested tapered off"

11. verb. give a point to

    "The candles are tapered"

    Synonyms: point, sharpen

Synonyms

candle, wick, point, sharpen

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in taper:

apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, prate, preta, terap

Common word forms

tapers, tapered, taperer, taperly, tapering, taperness

Words from these letters

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