Definitions for tinfoil

tinfoil tin·foil

Spelling: [tin-foil]
IPA: /ˈtɪnˌfɔɪl/

Tinfoil is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in tinfoil (fiilnot).

Definitions for tinfoil

noun

  1. tin, or an alloy of tin and lead, in the form of a thin sheet, much used as a wrapping for drugs, foods, tobacco, etc.

Origin of tinfoil

First recorded in 1425-75, tinfoil is from the late Middle English word tynfoile. See tin, foil2

Examples for tinfoil

And therefore identical with the foil of tinfoil, counterfoil, etc.

She drew her fingers a little tighter about the tinfoil wrapping of the violets.

A disk was thus prepared by gumming across the paper a very narrow strip of tinfoil.

Hold up the tinfoil to the light and look at the hole with one eye, the other being closed.

The yeast is then pressed, cut into cakes, and wrapped in tinfoil.

It has 126 sheets of tinfoil, 18 by 8¾ inches, separated by two sheets of varnished paper.

I offered them to her just as they were, wrapped in black paper and tinfoil.

So don your tinfoil hat and learn all about TrapWire, Stratfor, and what you should really be worrying about.

Add chalk marks or bits of tinfoil to indicate doors and lids.

"You will find them mild," said he with a smile, as he lifted the tinfoil cover.

Word Value for tinfoil
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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