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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. An umbrere.
3. noun. See Grayling, 1.
4. noun. 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.
5. adjective. Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.
6. transitive verb. To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.
7. noun. a medium brown to dark-brown color

   Synonyms: chocolate, coffee

8. noun. an earth pigment
9. adjective. of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments

Synonyms

chocolate, coffee

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in umber:

brume, umbre

Common word forms

umbers, umbered, umbering

Words from these letters

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