Crossword-Solution: GLOSS 5 letters, 181 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word Word Type Definition
Gloss n. Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth
surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it
a gloss.
Gloss n. A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.
Gloss v. t. To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth
and shining; as, to gloss cloth.
Gloss n. A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word
requiring explanation.
Gloss n. An interpretation, consisting of one or more words,
interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running
commentary.
Gloss n. A false or specious explanation.
Gloss v. t. To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate;
to explain; to annotate.
Gloss v. t. To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and
plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
Gloss v. i. To make comments; to comment; to explain.
Gloss v. i. To make sly remarks, or insinuations.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
GLOSS anagram SLOGS

We have 181 clues for the answer “GLOSS”

Clue Answers
Shiny finish on a magazine cover 1 answer
Artfully misleading interpretation 1 answer
Brief explanation 1 answer
Cosmetic that can be applied with a brush 1 answer
Deceptively attractive facade 1 answer
Explain away (with "over") 1 answer
Explanation or sleekness 1 answer
Explanatory note 1 answer
Finishing lip product 1 answer
Give short shrift to, with "over" 1 answer
It adds luster 1 answer
It adds shine to lips 1 answer
It adds shine to lips and photos 1 answer
Justify glibly, with "over" 1 answer
Kisser coating 1 answer
Lip ___ (cosmetic) 1 answer
Lip cover 1 answer
Lip covering 1 answer
Lip luster 1 answer
Lip protection 1 answer
Lip schmear 1 answer
Lip shine 1 answer
Lip shiner 1 answer
Lip stuff 1 answer
Lip-shine cosmetic 1 answer
Lips application 1 answer
Lipstick alternative 1 answer
Lipstick variety 1 answer
Lipstick's kin 1 answer
Luster for the lips 1 answer
Misleading interpretation 1 answer
Non-matte finish 1 answer
Note of explanation of a text. 1 answer
Paint asset 1 answer
Paint or photo finish 1 answer
Photo's finish 1 answer
Result of polishing 1 answer
Revealing lipstick 1 answer
Shine for the lips 1 answer
Shiner on one's face 1 answer
Shiny lip application 1 answer
Shiny lip coating 1 answer
Shiny lip stuff 1 answer
Sleekness 1 answer
Soft-pedal (with "over") 1 answer
Explanation added at the bottom of a page 1 answer
Superficial luster 1 answer
Superficial shine 1 answer
Supply for a drag queen 1 answer
Surface shine 1 answer
✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "GLOSS"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEACMZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
16 +1

New Suggestion for "GLOSS"

Answer (solution)
Clue

Related word tools

Sentences with GLOSS (5)

The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of the intellect and imagination, endow them with a false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and other people.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
With their riders up At the starting post they muster, The racers stripp'd for the "Melbourne Cup", All gloss and polish and lustre; And the course is seen, with its emerald sheen, By the bright spring-tide renew'd, Like a ribbon of green stretched out between The ranks of the multitude.
Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008
Peniston’s black walnut, from the slippery gloss of the vestibule tiles, and the mingled odour of sapolio and furniture-polish that met her at the door.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
Leonard, in his best clothes, and with a smoother gloss on his brown hair, sang to himself as he urged the strong-boned horses into a trot along the levels; and Betty finally felt so quietly happy that she forgot to be nervous.
Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home Bayard Taylor 2008

Quotes with GLOSS (3)

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped
Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.
Heather Brewer Twelfth Grade Kills
Charlotte: "It’s too bad they don’t give out diplomas for what you learn at the mall, because I could graduate with honors in that subject. No really. Since I’ve worked there, I’ve become an expert on all things shopping-related. For example, I can tell you right off who to distrust at the mall:1) Skinny people who work at Cinnabon. I mean, if they’re not eating the stuff they sell, how good can it be?2) The salesladies at department store makeup counters. No matter what they…
Janette Rallison It's a Mall World After All
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 136 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).