Definitions for bile

bile bile

Spelling: [bahyl]
IPA: /baɪl/

Bile is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in bile (beil).

Definitions for bile

noun

  1. Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
  2. ill temper; peevishness.
  3. Old Physiology. either of two humors associated with anger and gloominess.

Origin of bile

1655-65; French Latin bīlis

Examples for bile

It can come during one of those loud late-night phone calls fueled by booze and bile that leave no insult unspoken.

When you bile potaters, don't you let 'em run over onto the stove.

Coulter is the extremely slim bartender whose private stock contains one drink: bile.

The surgery removes the right side of the pancreas, the gallbladder, and parts of the stomach, bile duct, and small intestine.

Inflammations of the body come from burnings and inflamings, and all of them originate in bile.

By now, American rage has refined itself—like wine mixed with bile—into various categories and degrees.

But the other kinds of bile are variously distinguished by their colours.

Jesse Singal reports on the latest attempts to stem the flow of Internet bile.

The various kinds of bile have names answering to their colours.

There is a third class of diseases which are produced, some by wind and some by phlegm and some by bile.

Word Value for bile
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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