thatch

thatch is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain. Face value is 14 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.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
2. noun. A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
3. noun. To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.
4. noun. a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
5. noun. hair resembling thatched roofing material
6. noun. an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

   Synonyms: blackbeard, teach

7. noun. plant stalks used as roofing material
8. verb. cover with thatch

   "thatch the roofs"

Synonyms

blackbeard, teach

Common word forms

thatched, thatcher, thatches, thatching, thatchless

Words from these letters

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