tassel
tassel is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A male hawk. See Tercel. Face value is 6 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.
Definitions
- noun. A male hawk. See Tercel.
- noun. A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
- noun. A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.
- noun. The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.
- noun. A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.
- noun. A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
- intransitive verb. To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
- transitive verb. To adorn with tassels.
- noun. adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tassel:
leasts, slates, stales, steals, teslas
Common word forms
tassels, tasseled, tasseler, tasselly, tasseling, tasselled, tasseller, tasselling
Words from these letters
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