glass: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 6 letter points · starts with G · ends with S
Meaning of glass
noun
- uncountable, usually
An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
Example: This tabletop is made of glass.
- broadly, countable, uncountable
Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
Example: Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
- countable
A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
Example: Would you like a glass of wine?
- countable, metonymically, uncountable
The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
Example: There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
Listed forms: glasses, glasse.
Source: Wiktionary — glass.
verb
- transitive
To fit with glass; to glaze.
- transitive
To enclose in glass.
- UK, colloquial, transitive
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- transitive
To bombard an area (most often a planet) with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
Listed forms: glasses, glassing, glassed, glasse.
Source: Wiktionary — glass.
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 glass.
noun
a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking
- drinking glass
noun
the quantity a glass will hold
noun
a small refracting telescope
- field glass
- spyglass
noun
an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- methamphetamine
- methamphetamine hydrochloride
- Methedrine
- meth
- deoxyephedrine
- chalk
- chicken feed
- crank
- ice
- shabu
- trash
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is glass in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of glass
G(2) + L(1) + A(1) + S(1) + S(1) = 6 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 glass
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from glass
16 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in glass. Showing up to 24, longest first.