bottle: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 8 letter points · starts with B · ends with E
Meaning of bottle
noun
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
Example: Beer is often sold in bottles.
The contents of such a container.
Example: I only drank a bottle of beer.
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
Example: The baby wants a bottle.
- UK, informal
(originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
Example: You don’t have the bottle to do that!
Listed forms: bottles, boddle.
Source: Wiktionary — bottle.
verb
- transitive
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
Example: This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
- UK, transitive
To feed (an infant) baby formula.
Example: Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
- UK, slang
To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
Example: The rider bottled the big jump.
- UK, slang
To throw away a leading position.
Example: Arsenal bottled the Premier League.
Listed forms: bottles, bottling, bottled, boddle.
Source: Wiktionary — bottle.
noun
- UK, dialectal
A building; house.
- UK, dialectal, obsolete
A dwelling; habitation.
Listed forms: bottles, boddle.
Source: Wiktionary — bottle.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for bottle.
noun
the quantity contained in a bottle
noun
a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
- feeding bottle
- nursing bottle
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is bottle in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of bottle
B(3) + O(1) + T(1) + T(1) + L(1) + E(1) = 8 points.
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Anagrams of bottle
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from bottle
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