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Synonyms for biscuit

Most common

finger joint glue strip spline dowel bread tack cookie cracker

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Finger joint — A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to…

finger joint, dowel, glue strip, spline

2. Bread — any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and…

bread, tack

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.

    Near-synonyms: tack, bread

  2. n. 2

    A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.

Forms

Plural
biscuits → dowels, splines, breads, tacks…

Example sentences

  • dowel This tooth has a dowel crown.
  • bread A loaf of bread is better than the songs of birds.
  • tack I decided to take a different tack with my students.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
biscuitrising
splinerising
dowelfalling
breadrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
tack1
5 letters
bread1, dowel2
6 letters
cookie2, spline
7 letters
cracker2
9 letters
biscuitry

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dowel2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
biscuit
Italiano
biscotto
Español
galleta
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