Dictionary Entry
umber
umber is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 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 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.
- 2noun
An umbrere.
- 3noun
See Grayling, 1.
- 4noun
An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.
- 5adjective
Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.
- 6transitive verb
To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.
- 7noun
a medium brown to dark-brown color
- 8noun
an earth pigment
- 9adjective
of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments
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