Crossword-Solution: TENDON 6 letters, 66 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Tendon n. A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous
connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.

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TENDON anagram DENTON

We have 66 clues for the answer “TENDON”

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CORD of tissue attaching a muscle to a bone 1 answer
GANGLION (encysted), site of a 1 answer
Fibrous tissue attaching muscle to bone 1 answer
Fibrous band 1 answer
FIBROUS cord of tissue attaching a muscle to a bone 1 answer
ENCYSTED ganglion site 1 answer
Corporeal cord 1 answer
Cord associated with Achilles 1 answer
Collagen product 1 answer
Hamstring, for instance 1 answer
Body stretcher? 1 answer
Body band 1 answer
Bodily connector 1 answer
Band of fibrous tissue 1 answer
Anatomical cord 1 answer
Achilles, for example 1 answer
Achilles' ___ (hamstring) 1 answer
A doctor taps on one to test knee reflexes 1 answer
Hamstring, for one 1 answer
Ligament kin 1 answer
MUSCLE anchor 1 answer
MUSCLE attachment to bone 1 answer
Muscle attachment 1 answer
Muscle connection 1 answer
Muscle holder 1 answer
Muscle-to-bone band 1 answer
TISSUE attaching a muscle to a bone, dense, fibrous cord of 1 answer
The most well-known one is named for a Greek hero 1 answer
There's one named for Achilles 1 answer
Tissue cord 1 answer
What actually gets tapped with a hammer during a reflex test 1 answer
fibrous cord of tissue 1 answer
strong tissue attaching a muscle to a bone 1 answer
Muscle-to-bone connector 2 answers
Muscle-bone connector 2 answers
Muscle-bone connection 2 answers
MUSCLE cord 2 answers
Bone-to-muscle connector 2 answers
Bone-muscle connector 2 answers
PROPRIOCEPTOR site 2 answers
Hamstring, e.g. 2 answers
Anatomy subject 2 answers
Anatomical band. 2 answers
GANGLION site 3 answers
Achilles, for one 3 answers
Tough tissue 3 answers
Bone connector 3 answers
Muscle connector 3 answers
Achilles, e.g. 3 answers
CONNECTING part 3 answers
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Sentences with TENDON (5)

Achillis tendo.] (Anat.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; Ð so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
With a shrill scream she sped forward, running at the full of her speed across the moonlight directly towards that shadowed part of the encircling wall within whose thickness I had my gazing place; and then, throwing every tendon of her body into the spring, made the greatest leap that surely any human being ever accomplished, even when spurred on by the utmost of terror and desperation.
The Lost Continent C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 2008
There the grey wolf dangled, kicking and yelping, until the tendon of the ham gave way, and both fell heavily to the ground.
Indian Boyhood [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman 2008
One straight insertion, one snick of a tendon, and it was all over without a stain upon the white towel which lay beneath.
Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
One figure, that seemed to me very elegant, was that of a palm-tree tattooed on the back of a man's leg, the roots rising, as it were, from under his heel, the stem ascending the tendon of the ankle, and the graceful head branching out upon the calf.
The Coral Island R. M. Ballantyne 1996

Quotes with TENDON (3)

Shut up, shut up, will you! Nobody minds that you are in pain. Pain is a human condition. You do not care that I am hungry, do you? And therefore I do not need to care whether you are in agony. Nobody is hurting you! Be quiet, be quiet! Rannig, fill his mouth with dirt, and I’m sure I do not care what diseases he contracts. He has already been in the water. He has probably swallowed millions of pestilential microbes, and they are none of them acting too quickly. Do you hear m…
Michelle Franklin The Leaf Flute - A Marridon Novella
I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
Jason Isaacs
I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.
Dionne Warwick
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 81 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).