Crossword-Solution: CHAIN 5 letters, 196 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Chain	n.	A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
Chain	n.	That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
Chain	n.	A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
Chain	n.	An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
Chain	n.	Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
Chain	n.	The warp threads of a web.
Chain	v. t.	To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
Chain	v. t.	To keep in slavery; to enslave.
Chain	v. t.	To unite closely and strongly.
Chain	v. t.	To measure with the chain.
Chain	v. t.	To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
CHAIN	anagram	ACHIN, CHANI, CHIAN, CHINA, ICAHN

We have 196 clues for the answer “CHAIN”

Clue	Answers
"That's the sound of the men working on the ___ gang"	1 answer
"___ of Fools" (Aretha Franklin classic)	1 answer
"___ of Fools" (Aretha Franklin hit)	1 answer
'_____ of Fools' ('67 hit)	1 answer
ATOMS of carbon in a molecule (chem.)	1 answer
Applebee's or Subway	1 answer
Ball dragger	1 answer
Bike part connected to the sprockets	1 answer
Blingy piece of neckwear	1 answer
Bolt cutter target	1 answer
Burger King or Costco	1 answer
Burger King or The Gap	1 answer
Catena	1 answer
Centrally managed store group	1 answer
Commercial network	1 answer
Connected series of events.	1 answer
Daisy assemblage	1 answer
Daisy concoction	1 answer
Daisy or ball-and	1 answer
Derailleur part	1 answer
Fast food group	1 answer
Linked set of metal loops	1 answer
Franchise group	1 answer
Group of mountains, islands or stores	1 answer
Guard dog's restraint	1 answer
Gum wrapper creation	1 answer
IHOP or Borders	1 answer
IHOP or Staples	1 answer
IHOP, for one	1 answer
K-Mart, for one	1 answer
Kind of gang	1 answer
Kind of gang or letter	1 answer
Kind of lightning or gang	1 answer
Kind of mail or letter	1 answer
Kind of stitching.	1 answer
Line of links	1 answer
Linked set	1 answer
METAL RINGS CONNECTED TOGETHER IN a LINE	1 answer
Major retail operation	1 answer
Many-store retail operation	1 answer
Neckwear jewelry	1 answer
One kind of reaction.	1 answer
Part of a power saw	1 answer
Pendant holder	1 answer
Pizza Hut or Quiznos	1 answer
Polypeptide form	1 answer
Restaurant with many locations	1 answer
Retail network	1 answer
SERIES of links	1 answer
Series of metallic links	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RTEAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with CHAIN (5)

This discovery attracted very general attention, not only as confirming, in a singular manner, the conjectures so boldly made by a long chain of critics, but as bringing to light valuable literary treasures tending to establish the reputation, and to confirm the antiquity and authenticity of the great mass of Aesopian Fable.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The years seemed to stretch before her like the land; spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning, the same pulling at the chain—until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

The whole string of trailing individuals advanced in the completest balance of intention, like the remarkable creatures known as Chain Salpæ, which, distinctly organized in other respects, have one will common to a whole family.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not character of less force and solidity than her own.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Then came one laughing towards me, carrying a chain of beautiful flowers altogether new to me, and put it about my neck.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with CHAIN (3)

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

J.D. Stroube Caged by Damnation

I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than what." "Oh, sure there is," Sadie said. She sat back in her chair. "First you have your generic depressives. They're a dime a dozen and usually pretty boring. Then you've got the bulimics and the anorexics. They're slightly more interesting, although usually they're just girls with nothing better to do. Then you start getting into the good stu…

Michael Thomas Ford

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 129 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).