timer
timer is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc. 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.
Definitions
- noun. A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.
- noun. a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end
- noun. a regulator that activates or deactivates a mechanism at set times
- noun. (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in timer:
ermit, merit, miter, mitre, remit
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