Definitions for absorber

absorber ab·sorb·er

Spelling: [ab-sawr-ber, -zawr-]
IPA: /æbˈsɔr bər, -ˈzɔr-/

Absorber is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in absorber (abbeorrs).

Definitions for absorber

noun

  1. a person or thing that absorbs.
  2. shock absorber.
  3. Physics. a material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs neutrons without reproducing them.

Origin of absorber

First recorded in 1785-95; absorb + -er1

Examples for absorber

He was studying the ground plan of the absorber, when an uncanny sense of being watched made him look over his shoulder.

He is the producer of every thing, and their absorber also in himself.

The day in May that the men began a test for oil leaks in the absorber dawned with a promise of ferocious heat.

At five o'clock Sunday afternoon, the absorber was finished.

You will laugh at me and tell me to increase the absorber area, will you!

Yet it was less as a usurper than as an absorber that the ascension was achieved.

You are too much of a master there, to be merely an absorber.

You and Gustav clean up after the storm to-morrow and go on with the absorber.

The absorber was not as ambitious a structure as the engine house.

He had little fear of being picked up by radiation detectors, thanks to his absorber.

Word Value for absorber
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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