Works

What it means

1. (noun) (heading) Employment.
2. (noun) (heading) Effort.
3. (noun) Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. “We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.”
4. (noun) (heading) Product; the result of effort.
5. (noun) The staging of events to appear as real.
6. (noun) Ore before it is dressed.
7. (noun) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.) “Tell me you're using clean works at least.”
8. (verb) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. “He’s working in a bar.”
9. (verb) To effect by gradual degrees. “he worked his way through the crowd”
10. (verb) To embroider with thread.
11. (verb) To set into action. “He worked the levers.”
12. (verb) To cause to ferment.

Letter analysis

• Works contains 5 letters: 1 vowel(s) and 4 consonant(s).
• It uses 5 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 1.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 12.

Sub-words

• rows
• woks
• work
• row
• sow
• wok

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Words starting with WOR

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• worded
• wordier
• wordiest
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• wording
• wordings
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• workaday
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• birthmarks
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