umbo

umbo is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
2. noun. A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.
3. noun. One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
4. noun. a slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in umbo:

ombu

Common word forms

umbos

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