tincture

tincture is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red. 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 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
2. noun. One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
3. noun. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
4. noun. A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.
5. noun. A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
6. noun. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.
7. transitive verb. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
8. transitive verb. To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.
9. noun. (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
10. noun. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

    "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"

    Synonyms: shade, tint, tone

11. noun. an indication that something has been present

    "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"

    "a tincture of condescension"

    Synonyms: shadow, trace, vestige

12. noun. a substances that colors metals
13. verb. stain or tint with a color

    "The leaves were tinctured with a bright red"

14. verb. fill, as with a certain quality

    "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"

    Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, instill

Synonyms

shade, tint, tone, shadow, trace, vestige, impregnate, infuse, instill

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tincture:

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Common word forms

tinctured, tinctures, tincturing

Words from these letters

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