velvet

Plural: velvets

Noun

A soft, smooth fabric, often with a short, dense pile.
a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
A female chinchilla; a sow.
The drug dextromethorphan.
Money acquired by gambling.

Adjective Satellite

smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface

Verb

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
To soften; to mitigate.
to retract.

Adj

Made of velvet.
Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

Examples

The VELVET texture of his triple-word score felt luxurious to the Scrabble player.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.

Synonyms

velvet-textured, velvety

Scrabble Score: 12

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

Words With Friends Score: 15

velvet: valid Words With Friends Word