Crossword-Solution: PEARL 5 letters, 340 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Pearl	n.	A fringe or border.
Pearl	v. t.	To fringe; to border.
Pearl	n.	A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
Pearl	n.	Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
Pearl	n.	Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
Pearl	n.	A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
Pearl	n.	A light-colored tern.
Pearl	n.	One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
Pearl	n.	A whitish speck or film on the eye.
Pearl	n.	A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
Pearl	n.	A size of type, between agate and diamond.
Pearl	a.	Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
Pearl	v. t.	To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
Pearl	v. t.	To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
Pearl	v. i.	To resemble pearl or pearls.
Pearl	v. i.	To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PEARL	anagram	ARPEL, LEPRA, PALER, PARLE, PERLA, RELAP

We have 340 clues for the answer “PEARL”

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"Cultured" gem	1 answer
"The Good Earth" author Buck	1 answer
"The Good Earth" novelist Buck	1 answer
"The Scarlet Letter" daughter	1 answer
'71 Janis Joplin album	1 answer
1971 Janis Joplin record	1 answer
30th anniversary	1 answer
A white gem from the oyster	1 answer
Abalone yield	1 answer
Abnormal growth in mollusk shell.	1 answer
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BIVALVIA gemstone	1 answer
Bailey of good will	1 answer
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Bead from an oyster	1 answer
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Birthstone of many Geminis	1 answer
Bizet's "The ___ Fishers"	1 answer
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Brilliant gray	1 answer
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CANTON river	1 answer
Calcareous concretion.	1 answer
Certain diver's objective	1 answer
Certain diver's quest	1 answer
China's 3rd longest river	1 answer
Cultured bauble	1 answer
Cultured item	1 answer
Cultured sort?	1 answer
Dived-for gem	1 answer
Dived-for item	1 answer
Diver's gem	1 answer
Diver's gem of a find	1 answer
Diver's prize	1 answer
Diving find	1 answer
Earring in a Vermeer painting	1 answer
Earring inset	1 answer
Entertainer Minnie	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EETRA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PEARL (5)

Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the main body of the redskins folded their blankets around them, and in the phlegmatic manner that is to them, the pearl of manhood squatted above the children’s home, awaiting the cold moment when they should deal pale death.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

And Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, Spake these words to Hiawatha: “Yonder dwells the great Pearl-Feather, Megissogwon, the Magician, Manito of Wealth and Wampum, Guarded by his fiery serpents, Guarded by the black pitch-water.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of _Ormus_ and of _Ind_, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showrs on her Kings _Barbaric_ Pearl & Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais’d To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue Vain Warr with Heav’n, and by success untaught His proud imaginations thus displaid.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Aesop’s Fables The Cock and the Pearl A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

PEARL We have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with PEARL (3)

See? Injustice. Here we are, risking our lives to rescue Kai and this whole planet, and Adri and Pearl get to go to the royal wedding. I’m disgusted. I hope they spill soy sauce on their fancy dresses.” Jacin’s concern turned fast to annoyance. “Your ship has some messed-up priorities, you know that?”“Iko. My name is Iko. If you don’t stop calling me the ‘ship,’ I am going to make sure you never have hot water during your showers again, do you understand me?”“Yeah, hold that …

Marissa Meyer Cress

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind. A photograph couldn't ever tell its story. It's like something you have to live to understand. One of those freak collisions of fizzing meteors and looming celestial b…

Craig Silvey Jasper Jones

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,' declared Anne. 'I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads.

L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables: Anne Shirley Series #1

Where this answer appears

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

Used 374 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).