Crossword-Solution: ROACH 5 letters, 127 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Roach	n.	A cockroach.
Roach	n.	A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.
Roach	n.	An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
Roach	n.	The redfin, or shiner.
Roach	n.	A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
Roach	v. t.	To cause to arch.
Roach	v. t.	To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ROACH	anagram	ACHRO, CHARO, CORAH, OCHRA, ORACH, ROCHA

We have 127 clues for the answer “ROACH”

Clue	Answers
"La Cucaracha" subject	1 answer
"Little Rascals" creator Hal	1 answer
"Little Rascals" producer	1 answer
"Lovehatetragedy" Papa ___	1 answer
"Motel" victim	1 answer
"Mythbusters" tested whether one can actually survive a nuclear explosion	1 answer
"Our Gang" producer Hal	1 answer
"Our Gang" series creator Hal	1 answer
"Stiff" and "Bonk" writer Mary	1 answer
Ancestor of a termite, surprisingly	1 answer
Apartment pest, briefly	1 answer
Apartment pest, informally	1 answer
Bug in Raid commercials	1 answer
Building pest	1 answer
Butt of a joint	1 answer
Centipede's supper	1 answer
Certain pest, for short	1 answer
Cockroach (Colloq)	1 answer
Comedy producer Hal	1 answer
Director Hal of silents	1 answer
Disliked insect	1 answer
European freshwater food fish having a greenish back	1 answer
Film producer Hal	1 answer
Hal who produced Laurel and Hardy films	1 answer
Hissing creature in Madagascar	1 answer
House pest, informally	1 answer
Household insect, briefly	1 answer
Household pest, for short	1 answer
Household scurrier	1 answer
Insect in Raid ads	1 answer
Insect similar to a termite	1 answer
Insect that can hold its breath for 40 minutes, informally	1 answer
Insect trapped in a "motel"	1 answer
Invasive household insect	1 answer
Jazz drummer Max	1 answer
Joint stub	1 answer
Kafka's insect	1 answer
La cucaracha	1 answer
Laurel and Hardy boss	1 answer
Laurel and Hardy producer	1 answer
Marijuana butt	1 answer
Max on the drums	1 answer
Motel arrival?	1 answer
Motel inhabitant?	1 answer
Motel resident, maybe	1 answer
Nocturnal pest	1 answer
Nocturnal scurrier	1 answer
Nonpaying apartment dweller?	1 answer
Orkin or Terminix victim	1 answer
Part of a cannabis cigarette (fish)	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AERTE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ROACH (5)

Roach's Tripple Compound.--This is one of the very best sensitive solutions, and is very popular among Daguerreotypists.

The History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry H. Snelling 2008

The river abounds in pike, roach, dace, gudgeon, and eels, just here; and you can sit and fish for them all day.

Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1995

They are flyfishing all of them, seizing insects from the sorrel tips and grass, as the kingfisher takes a roach from the water.

The Pageant of Summer Richard Jefferies 2007

The way to discern the Pike and to take him, it you mistrust your Bream hook, for I have taken a Pike a yard long several times at my Bream hooks, and sometimes he hath had the luck to share my line, may be thus: Take a small Bleak, or Roach, or Gudgeon, and bait it; and set it, alive, among your rods, two feet deep from the cork, with a little red worm on the point of the hook: then take a few crumbs of white bread, or some of the ground-bait, and sprinkle it gently amongst your rods.

The Compleat Angler Izaak Walton 1996

The next morning, Tuesday, Edison took his new fidus Achates with him to a conference with John Roach, the famous old ship-builder, and at it agreed to take the AEtna Iron works, where Roach had laid the foundations of his fame and fortune.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006

Quotes with ROACH (3)

There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.

Patrick Hamilton The Slaves of Solitude

I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to comm…

Mary Roach Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

P.S. Martinez

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 154 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).