velvet

Plural: velvets

Noun

a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back
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.
A female chinchilla; a sow.
The drug dextromethorphan.
Money acquired by gambling.

Adjective Satellite

smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface

Verb

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
To soften; to mitigate.
to retract.

Adj

Made of velvet.
Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Late Latin villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.

Synonyms

velvet-textured, velvety

Scrabble Score: 12

velvet is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
velvet is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
velvet is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

velvet is a valid Words With Friends word