tentacle

tentacle is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.
2. noun. any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
3. noun. something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold

   "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tentacle:

ectental, electant

Common word forms

tentacled, tentacles

Words from these letters

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