Crossword-Solution: TAUT 4 letters, 237 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Taut	a.	Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
Taut	a.	Snug; close; firm; secure.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TAUT	anagram	ATTU, TATU

We have 237 clues for the answer “TAUT”

Clue	Answers
All stretched out	1 answer
Allowing no play	1 answer
Allowing no wiggle room	1 answer
At a breaking point, maybe	1 answer
Completely stretched	1 answer
Concise and controlled	1 answer
Drawn tightly	1 answer
Drawn to one's limits	1 answer
Emotionally strained	1 answer
Far from slack	1 answer
Filled with tension	1 answer
Fine-strung	1 answer
Fully extended	1 answer
Fully stretched	1 answer
Good descriptor for a thriller	1 answer
Hard drawn.	1 answer
Hardly loose	1 answer
Having little give	1 answer
Having little slack	1 answer
Having no play, say	1 answer
Having no slack	1 answer
IN proper shape	1 answer
Kept in proper order.	1 answer
Lacking give	1 answer
Lacking play	1 answer
Lacking slackness	1 answer
Like a circus high wire	1 answer
Like a drumhead	1 answer
Like a fan belt	1 answer
Like a guitar string	1 answer
Like a high wire	1 answer
Like a newly installed fan belt	1 answer
Like a newly-installed fan belt	1 answer
Like a nicely tuned guitar string	1 answer
Like a post-Botox face	1 answer
Like a rope during a tug-of-war match	1 answer
Like a rope during tug-of-war	1 answer
Like a rope that's not slack	1 answer
Like a slacklining rope	1 answer
Like a suspenseful thriller	1 answer
Like a tabor top?	1 answer
Like a tense thriller	1 answer
Like a tightly stretched rope	1 answer
Like a tightrope, ideally	1 answer
Like a tightrope, more so than a slackline	1 answer
Like a trampoline's surface	1 answer
Like a tripwire	1 answer
Like a tug-of-war rope	1 answer
Like a tuned drumhead	1 answer
Like a tuned guitar string	1 answer

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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

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Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with TAUT (5)

The mariner who keeps his mainsheet taut, And will not slacken in the gale, is like To sail with thwarts reversed, keel uppermost.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Here the ape-man unloosed his grass rope from about his neck, and as Numa stood above the body of the boar, challenging head erect, he dropped the sinuous noose about the maned neck, drawing the stout strands taut with a sudden jerk.

The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Whether man or beast she could but conjecture and so she stood with every nerve taut waiting the thing that floundered heavily toward her.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

The movements of this hand were not uncertain, but only quivered somewhat, as a taut wire shivers in the wind, while Raimbaut de Vaquieras waited motionless.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 2008

Wilbur and the Chinamen obeyed, bearing up and down upon the bars till the slack of the anchor-chain came home and stretched taut and dripping from the hawse-holes.

Moran of the Lady Letty Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with TAUT (3)

Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in astonishment. ‘You mean you don’t know?’ Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn’t particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. ‘What’s so unusual about that, princess?’ he asked quietly. ‘Do you know how your story ends?’ Meggie had no answer for that.

Cornelia Funke Inkheart

There was a dragon who had a long-standing obsession with a queen's breasts," she said, growing breathless. "The dragon knew the penalty to touch her would mean death, yet he revealed his secret desire to the king's chief doctor. This man promised he could arrange for the dragon to satisfy his desire, but it would cost him one thousand gold coins." She spread her soapy hands over his nipples, then down his arms. "Though he didn't have the money, the dragon readily agreed to t…

Gena Showalter

The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him. Newmann had seen some truth that was …

Paulette Jiles Enemy Women

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 587 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).