storm: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 7 letter points · starts with S · ends with M
Meaning of storm
noun
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.
Example: The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.
- broadly
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation. A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
- broadly
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation. Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation. A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
Listed forms: storms.
Source: Wiktionary — storm.
verb
- US, impersonal
Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
Example: It stormed throughout the night.
- transitive
To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
- figuratively, transitive
To disturb or trouble (someone).
- figuratively, transitive
To use (harsh language).
Listed forms: storms, storming, stormed, glossary, stormest.
Source: Wiktionary — storm.
noun
A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
Listed forms: storms.
Source: Wiktionary — storm.
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 storm.
noun
a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- violent storm
noun
a violent commotion or disturbance
verb
behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
verb
take by force
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is storm in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of storm
S(1) + T(1) + O(1) + R(1) + M(3) = 7 points.
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Anagrams of storm
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from storm
23 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in storm. Showing up to 24, longest first.