Scrabble & Words with friends points
- washes is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
- washes is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
- washes is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11
Definition of washes
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) (noun)
Examples
- from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water
Synonyms
- washout
- make moist (verb)
Synonyms
- dampen
- moisten
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller (noun)
Synonyms
- airstream
- backwash
- race
- slipstream
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering (noun)
Synonyms
- laundry
- washables
- washing
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water (verb)
Synonyms
- launder
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent (verb)
Examples
- he washed the dirt from his coat
- The nurse washed away the blood
- Can you wash away the spots on the windows?
- he managed to wash out the stains
Synonyms
- wash away
- wash off
- wash out
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) (noun)
Synonyms
- lavation
- washing
- wash or flow against (verb)
Synonyms
- lap
- lave
- clean with some chemical process (verb)
Synonyms
- rinse
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) (noun)
Synonyms
- dry wash
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other (noun)
Synonyms
- wash drawing
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water (verb)
Synonyms
- lave
- admit to testing or proof (verb)
Examples
- This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out (noun)
Examples
- at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to (verb)
- a thin coat of water-base paint (noun)
- be capable of being washed (verb)
Examples
- Does this material wash?
- form by erosion (verb)
Examples
- The river washed a ravine into the mountainside
- move by or as if by water (verb)
Examples
- The swollen river washed away the footbridge
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) (verb)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking (verb)
Examples
- The cat washes several times a day
See definition of washes in Merriam Webster