veil
veil is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
- noun. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
- noun. The calyptra of mosses.
- noun. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
- noun. A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
- noun. Same as Velum, 3.
- noun. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
- noun. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
- noun. a garment that covers the head and face
- noun. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
- noun. the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
- noun. a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
- verb. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"a hidden message"
"a veiled threat"
- verb. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
"women in Afghanistan veil their faces"
Synonyms
caul, velum, hide, obliterate, obscure
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in veil:
Common word forms
veils, veiled, veiler, veiling, veilless
Words from these letters
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