menstruate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈmɛnstɹʊeɪt/
See all 4 pronunciations
/ˈmɛnstɹʊeɪt/ · /ˌmɛnstɹuˈeɪt/ · /ˈmɛnstɹəˌweɪt/ · /ˌmɛnˈstɹeɪt/

Definition of menstruate

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive)To stain with or as if with menses.
See all 3 definitions

verb

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive)To stain with or as if with menses.
  2. (intransitive)To undergo menstruation, to have a period.
    “A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.”
    “Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".”
    “Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Menstrual.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From menstruum + -ate (verb-forming suffix); sense 2 (“to undergo menstruation”) is possibly a back-formation from menstruation.

Anagrams of menstruate

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from menstruate

200+ playable · top: NUMERATES (11 pts)

Best play numerates 11 points

9-letter words

1 word

8-letter words

13 words

7-letter words

61 words

6-letter words

124 words

Hooks

2 extensions · 2 back

A single letter you can add to menstruate to make another valid word.

Find your best play with menstruate

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes menstruate, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.