wolf

wolf is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man. Face value is 10 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 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
2. adjective. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
3. adjective. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
4. adjective. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
5. adjective. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
6. adjective. The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
7. adjective. In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
8. adjective. A willying machine.
9. noun. any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
10. noun. a cruelly rapacious person

    Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wildcat

11. noun. a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

    Synonyms: masher

12. noun. German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
13. noun. Austrian composer (1860-1903)
14. verb. eat hastily

    "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"

Synonyms

beast, brute, savage, wildcat, masher

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wolf:

flow, fowl

Common word forms

wolfs, wolfed, wolfen, wolfer, wolfing, wolfless

Words from these letters

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