Jaw is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JAW in dictionary:

VERB:
• to chatter at length
• talk at length; chatter
• To scold; to clamor.
• To assail or abuse by scolding.
• talk socially without exchanging too much information
• talk incessantly and tiresomely
• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
• censure severely or angrily
• talk lengthily
NOUN:
• each of the upper and lower bony structures in vertebrates forming the framework of the mouth and containing the teeth.
• the lower movable bone of the jaw, or the part of the face containing it
• the mouth with its bones and teeth.
• the grasping, biting, or crushing mouthparts of an invertebrate.
• the gripping parts of a tool or machine, such as a wrench or vice.
• the grasping or destructive power of something
• an opening likened to a mouth
• talk or gossip, especially when lengthy or tedious
• one of the bones in which the teeth are set
• One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering.
• In the plural, the mouth.
• Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.
• A notch or opening.
• A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard.
• One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.
• The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• Impudent or abusive talk.
• the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
• the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
• holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to jabber

Words related to JAW

chaft13 jawed16 jawing17 jawings18 jawless17 jawlike21 jaws14

How to use JAW in a sentence

• He was dark-haired, with a square face, a hard prominent jaw, and eyes of a pale gray.
• The jaw must be strong and muscular, but not too full in the cheek, and of a good punishing length.
• And while we were working, an English soldier, shot through the jaw and throat, sat on the edge of his bed, shaking with a hideous, rattling cough.
• They are armed with strong sharp teeth, and generally seize the whale by the lower jaw.
• Never had the jaw bone looked so enormous, nor the square-cut head so huge.
• Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass and waters issued out of it.
• The folds of neck and jaw suggest Bismarckian traits.
• She glanced at the square, massive jaw with furtive admiration.
• She loved the rugged lines of his massive jaw in profile.
• Harbison and his square jaw, and an irresistible force, Jimmy and his weight, and there is bound to be trouble.
• There was strength in the clean-cut jaw of the brown face.
• The teeth of the cowpuncher clenched tightly till the muscles of the jaw stood out like ropes.
• The reader may judge of my surprise at finding that he was none other than my old friend Chowbok! My jaw dropped, and my eyes almost started out of my head with astonishment.
• It is well to note the irregularity here, not only an odd number, but the lower jaw has the greater number, whereas it is generally the other way.
• When I slapped him on the jaw, and he stood there and took it, I saw his game.
• His knees were still shaking under him, and there was a nervous tremor in his jaw and in his wrists which he tried vainly to conquer.
• Before the latter could fire again, Chester drove him back with a hard right-handed blow to the jaw.
• Hamlin was a small man, with iron gray hair, a square jaw and thin, tightly closed lips.
• To the west and nearly above him is a V-shaped constellation which is believed to be the jaw of one of the pigs which he killed.
• When the gods saw that they took a sword and thrust it into his mouth, so that it entered his under jaw right up to the hilt, and the point reached his palate.

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