waist

waist is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 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 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
2. noun. Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
3. noun. A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
4. noun. A girdle or belt for the waist.
5. noun. the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole

   Synonyms: shank

6. noun. the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips

   Synonyms: waistline

Synonyms

shank, waistline

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in waist:

swati, waits

Common word forms

waists, waisted, waister, waisting, waistless

Words from these letters

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