tooth
tooth is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food. Face value is 8 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. One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.
- noun. Fig.: Taste; palate.
- noun. Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.
- noun. A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
- noun. One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
- noun. An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant
- noun. one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
- noun. Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
- transitive verb. To furnish with teeth.
- transitive verb. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
- transitive verb. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.
- noun. a means of enforcement
"the treaty had no teeth in it"
- noun. toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
- noun. something resembling the tooth of an animal
- noun. one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
- noun. hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
Common word forms
tooths, toothed, toother, toothful, toothing, toothless
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