Spacer

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

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  • n. A person who works in space.
  • n. An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
  • n. A bushing.
  • n. A forgetful person.
  • n. A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A device used in cable telegraphy for reversing the current at proper intervals, thus increasing the speed of transmission: also used for a somewhat similar purpose on land-lines.
  • n. In a typewriter, a key, and the mechanism connected with it, by which spaces are made between words.
  • n. In a type-setting machine, a device for spacing words.
  • n. Anything by which a space or interval is made.
  • Word Usage
    "The first twenty-one pills have a combination of synthetic estrogen and progestin hormones; the last seven pills have no hormones and are called spacer pills, sugar pills, or inactive pills."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Pacer    acer    baser    bracer    chaser    eraser    facer    lacer    pacer    placer   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    washer    clamp    flange    clevis    gasket    forend    insert    absorber