kitchen

Noun

A room or area where food is prepared and cooked.
a room equipped for preparing meals
A room or area for preparing food.
Cuisine; style of cooking.
The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
The percussion section of an orchestra.
A utensil for roasting meat.
A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
A public gaming room in a casino.
Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.
The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.

Verb

To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
To embellish; to dress up.

Examples

His opponent tried to throw him off by playing KITCHEN, implying he was about to get cooked.
We cook in the kitchen.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).

Scrabble Score: 16

kitchen: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
kitchen: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
kitchen: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

kitchen: valid Words With Friends Word