Dictionary Entry
vermilion
vermilion is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 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 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.
- 2noun
Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.
- 3transitive verb
To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
- 4noun
a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge
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- 5verb
color vermilion
- 6adjective
of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
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- 7noun
A brilliant red pigment made from mercury sulfide; also the color itself.
- 8adjective
Of a bright red-orange color.
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