Definitions for ointments

ointments oint·ment

Spelling: [oint-muh nt]
IPA: /ˈɔɪnt mənt/

Ointments is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 341 anagrams from letters in ointments (eimnnostt).

Definitions for ointments

noun

  1. a soft, unctuous preparation, often medicated, for application to the skin; unguent.
  2. a soft, unctuous preparation, often medicated, for application to the skin; unguent.

Origin of ointments

1250-1300; obsolete oint (aphetic variant of anoint) + -ment; replacing Middle English oignement Old French Vulgar Latin *unguimentum for L

Examples for ointments

There's only one small fly in the ointment, so far as I can see.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes—the inevitable fly in the ointment of any big new liberal idea.

John McCormack has been the dogged fly in the ointment here.

This means not being the fly in the ointment of peace talks.

Melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and sprinkle in the tutty, continually stirring them till the ointment is cold.

Take an ounce of the ointment called nutritum, the yolk of a small egg, or the half of a large one, and mix them well together.

In such a case, is the substance which is anointed the same as the colour or ointment?

The flaw in Gaga's ointment too was is in part that she was upstaged by Kanye.

There are bound to be vexations, flies in the ointment, as we say.

He put the filings in a little pot which had been used for ointment of some kind.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes—the inevitable fly in the ointment of any big new liberal idea.

There are bound to be vexations, flies in the ointment, as we say.

This means not being the fly in the ointment of peace talks.

Melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and sprinkle in the tutty, continually stirring them till the ointment is cold.

He put the filings in a little pot which had been used for ointment of some kind.

In such a case, is the substance which is anointed the same as the colour or ointment?

Take an ounce of the ointment called nutritum, the yolk of a small egg, or the half of a large one, and mix them well together.

The flaw in Gaga's ointment too was is in part that she was upstaged by Kanye.

There's only one small fly in the ointment, so far as I can see.

John McCormack has been the dogged fly in the ointment here.

Word Value for ointments
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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