Definitions for worts

worts wort

Spelling: [wurt, wawrt]
IPA: /wɜrt, wɔrt/

Worts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in worts (orstw).

Definitions for worts

noun

  1. the unfermented or fermenting infusion of malt that after fermentation becomes beer or mash.
  2. a plant, herb, or vegetable (now usually used only in combination):
  3. whort.

Origin of worts

before 1000; Middle English; Old English wyrt; cognate with German Würze spice; akin to wort2

Examples for worts

A species of St. John's-wort in bloom, teasels, and a small convolvulus.

This frothing and foaming of the wort is a proof that the fermentation is active.

If they be opaque or whey coloured, there is some unsoundness in the wort.

Upon the whole, not more than 100 gallons of wort should be extracted.

I haf been robbed—robbed by Denson himself, wit'out a wort of doubt.

The natural reaction of the wort should not be interfered with.

One only thing they feared, and that was the great St. John's wort.

Its quantity must depend upon the temperature, strength, and quantity of the wort.

It is unpasteurized and unfiltered, and the wort reaches the boiling point but never boils.

Boil them with the wort, two hours, from the time it begins to boil.

Word Value for worts
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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