You can make 22 words from velvet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of velvet
velvet
Etymology
From Middle Englishvelvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitanveluet, from Late Latinvillutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latinvillus(“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Frenchvelours.
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɛlvɪt/
(General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɛlvɪt/
Noun
velvet (countable and uncountable, pluralvelvets)
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
(rare, countable) A female chinchilla; a sow.
(slang, uncountable) The drug dextromethorphan.
(slang, uncountable) Money acquired by gambling.
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Verb
velvet (third-person singular simple presentvelvets, present participlevelveting, simple past and past participlevelveted)
To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
(cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
(politics) Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
2011, Javad Etaat quoted in Hooman Majd, The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge, page 39:
“I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”
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Further reading
Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “velvet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Middle English
Alternative forms
velwet, veluet, welwet, velvette, felwet
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitanveluet, from Late Latinvillutittus.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /vɛlˈvɛt/, /vɛlˈwɛt/
Noun
velvet (pluralveluettes)
velvet(fine tufted fabric)
Clothes made of velvet.
Descendants
English: velvet
Scots: velvet
References
“velvet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-5.