NOUN
  • Definition - Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
  • Definition - A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
  • Definition - A yellow-orange colour.
  • Definition - The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
  • Definition - The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
  • Example - an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
VERB
  • Definition - To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
  • Example - ambered wine, an ambered room
  • Definition - To preserve in amber.
  • Example - an ambered fly
  • Definition - To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
  • Example - an ambered fly
  • Definition - To take on the yellow colour of amber.
  • Example - an ambered fly
ADJECTIVE
  • Definition - Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
  • Example - an ambered fly
Words in your word
5 Letter Words
amber 9 bream 9 embar 9
4 Letter Words
barm 8 beam 8 bema 8 berm 8 mabe 8 bare 6 bear 6 brae 6 mare 6 ream 6
3 Letter Words
bam 7 arb 5 arm 5 bar 5 bra 5 mae 5 mar 5 ram 5 reb 5 rem 5 are 3 ear 3 era 3
2 Letter Words
ab 4 am 4 ba 4 be 4 em 4 ma 4 me 4 ae 2 ar 2 er 2 re 2
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