torch

torch is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
2. noun. A flashlight.
3. noun. a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame

   Synonyms: blowlamp, blowtorch

4. noun. a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

   Synonyms: flashlight

5. noun. a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
6. noun. tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
7. verb. burn maliciously, as by arson

   "The madman torched the barns"

Synonyms

blowlamp, blowtorch, flashlight

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in torch:

chort, rotch, troch

Common word forms

torched, torcher, torches, torching, torchable, torchless

Words from these letters

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