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tartar
tartar is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc. Face value is 6 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.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc.
- 2noun
A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
- 3noun
A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.
- 4noun
A person of a keen, irritable temper.
- 5adjective
Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
- 6noun
See Tartarus.
- 7noun
an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums
- 8noun
a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century
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- 9noun
a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
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- 10noun
a salt used especially in baking powder
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