turbinate

turbinate is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
2. adjective. Alt. of Turbinated
3. noun. any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates

   Synonyms: turbinal

4. adjective. in the shape of a coil

   Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled

5. adjective. of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages

Synonyms

turbinal, coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in turbinate:

tribunate

Common word forms

turbinated, turbinates

Words from these letters

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