wad
wad is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Woad. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 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. Woad.
- noun. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
- noun. Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
- noun. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
- transitive verb. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
- transitive verb. To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
- noun. Alt. of Wadd
- noun. a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
- noun. a small mass of soft material
"he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
- verb. compress into a wad
"wad paper into the box"
- verb. crowd or pack to capacity
"the theater was jampacked"
Synonyms
chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid, batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wad:
Common word forms
wads, waded, wader, wades, wadded, wadder, wading, wadable, wadding
Words from these letters
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