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PURDAH

“PURDAH” is a valid word.

12 Scrabble points
13 Words with Friends
6 letters

Definition

noun

  1. a state of social isolation
  2. the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded
  3. a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers

< 6-letter words: PURDAH

5-letter words 2

4-letter words 5

  • hardnot easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
  • harpa chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
  • pard
  • durathe outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges
  • prau

3-letter words 15

  • hadhave or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
  • rapa reproach for some lapse or misdeed
  • pada number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
  • hup
  • par(golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
  • rada unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
  • hapan accidental happening
  • dahthe longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
  • rah
  • pah
  • pud(British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)
  • dap
  • pur
  • dup
  • urdgoddess of fate: a giantess who personified the past

2-letter words 7

  • upraise
  • uh
  • ah
  • ha(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day
  • paan informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
  • ada public promotion of some product or service
  • ara colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere