chill: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 10 letter points · starts with C · ends with L
Meaning of chill
noun
- countable, uncountable
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
Example: There was a chill in the air.
- countable, uncountable
A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
Example: Close the window or you'll catch a chill.
- countable, uncountable
An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
Example: Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.
- countable, uncountable
An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
Listed forms: chills.
Source: Wiktionary — chill.
adj
Moderately cold or chilly.
Example: A chill wind was blowing down the street.
Unwelcoming; not cordial.
Example: Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.
- slang
Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
Example: The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.
- slang
"Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
Example: That new movie was chill, man.
Source: Wiktionary — chill.
verb
- transitive
To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
Example: Chill before serving.
- intransitive
To become cold.
Example: In the wind he chilled quickly.
- transitive
To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- intransitive
To become hard by rapid cooling.
Listed forms: chills, chilling, chilled.
Source: Wiktionary — chill.
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 chill.
noun
coldness due to a cold environment
noun
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
noun
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
noun
a sudden numbing dread
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is chill in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of chill
C(3) + H(4) + I(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 10 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of chill
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from chill
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