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8-letter words (2 found)

INTERCUT,TINCTURE,

7-letter words (3 found)

CITTERN,CUTTIER,NUTTIER,

6-letter words (13 found)

CRETIN,CUITER,CURIET,CURITE,CUTTER,NUTTER,RETINT,TENUTI,TINTER,TRIUNE,TUNIER,UNITER,URETIC,

5-letter words (45 found)

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4-letter words (50 found)

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3-letter words (38 found)

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2-letter words (13 found)

EN,ER,ET,IN,IT,NE,NU,RE,TE,TI,UN,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 165 words from tincture according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tincture

tincture

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English tincture (“a dye, pigment; a colour, hue, tint; process of colouring or dyeing; medicinal ointment or salve (perhaps one discolouring the skin); use of a medicinal tincture; (alchemy) transmutation of base metals into gold; ability to cause such transmutation; substance supposed to cause such transmutation”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin tīnctūra (“act of dyeing”) + Middle English -ure (suffix indicating an action or a process and the means or result of that action or process). Tīnctūra is derived from tīnctus (“coloured, tinged; dipped in; impregnated with; treated”) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns expressing activities or results); while tīnctus is the perfect passive participle of tingō (“to colour, dye, tinge; to dip (in), immerse; to impregnate (with); to moisten, wet; to smear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to dip; to soak”). Doublet of teinture and tinctura.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə/, /ˈtɪŋktjʊə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ/
  • Hyphenation: tinct‧ure

Noun

tincture (plural tinctures)

  1. Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
    1. (obsolete) A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic. [15th–19th c.]
    2. (by extension)
      1. A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
      2. (figuratively) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
      3. (heraldry) A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur, or metal.
    3. (obsolete)
      1. The act of colouring or dyeing.
      2. (figuratively)
        1. A slight physical quality other than colour (especially taste), or an abstract quality, added to something; a tinge.
        2. A small flaw; a blemish, a stain.
      3. (Christianity) Synonym of baptism
  2. Scientific and alchemical senses.
    1. (pharmacy) A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
    2. (by extension, humorous) A (small) alcoholic drink.
    3. (obsolete except historical)
      1. (alchemy)
        1. An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
        2. A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
      2. (chemistry) The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.

Derived terms

  • rule of tincture
  • tincture of steel
  • Warburg's tincture

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Verb

tincture (third-person singular simple present tinctures, present participle tincturing, simple past and past participle tinctured)

  1. (transitive)
    1. (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
    2. (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
    3. (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
  2. (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.

Derived terms

  • tincturation
  • tinctured (adjective)
  • tincturing (adjective, noun)
  • untinctured

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References

Further reading

  • tincture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • tincture (heraldry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Tincture”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes X, Part 1 (Ti–U), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 48, column 2.

Anagrams

  • intercut

Latin

Participle

tīnctūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of tīnctūrus

Source: wiktionary.org