millinery
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 9
/ˈmɪl.nɚˌi/(US)
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/ˈmɪl.nɚˌi/(US) · /ˈmɪl.ɪ.nɚ.i/
Definition of millinery
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Women's hats.
“The show is worth watching for Agnes van Rhijn’s withering propriety and Bertha Russell’s dresses and millinery alone.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)Women's hats.
“The show is worth watching for Agnes van Rhijn’s withering propriety and Bertha Russell’s dresses and millinery alone.”
- (countable)A shop selling women's hats.
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(uncountable)The business and work that a milliner engages in.
“They used to tell one about a kid asking his grumpy old man when they were walking to the park, "What's the name of this flower, Papa?" And the old guy is peevish and he yells, "How should I know? Am I in the milinery business?"”
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Etymology
From milliner + -y (nominalizer).
Words you can make from millinery
97 playable · top: MYELIN (11 pts)
Best play myelin 11 points8-letter words
1 word7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
7 words5-letter words
14 words4-letter words
36 words- ELMY 9 pts
- LIMY 9 pts
- MIRY 9 pts
- RIMY 9 pts
- YLEM 9 pts
- ILLY 7 pts
- INLY 7 pts
- LILY 7 pts
- LINY 7 pts
- LYRE 7 pts
- RELY 7 pts
- YELL 7 pts
- YILL 7 pts
- EMIR 6 pts
- LIME 6 pts
- LIMN 6 pts
- MELL 6 pts
- MERL 6 pts
- MIEN 6 pts
- MILE 6 pts
- MILL 6 pts
- MINE 6 pts
- MINI 6 pts
- MIRE 6 pts
- MIRI 6 pts
- RIME 6 pts
- LIEN 4 pts
- LIER 4 pts
- LINE 4 pts
- LIRE 4 pts
- LIRI 4 pts
- NILL 4 pts
- REIN 4 pts
- RIEL 4 pts
- RILE 4 pts
- RILL 4 pts
3-letter words
24 words2-letter words
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