Crossword-Solution: STAIN 5 letters, 284 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Stain	v. t.	To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
Stain	v. t.	To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.
Stain	v. t.	To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
Stain	v. t.	To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
Stain	v. i.	To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
Stain	n.	A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
Stain	n.	A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
Stain	n.	Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
Stain	n.	Cause of reproach; shame.
Stain	n.	A tincture; a tinge.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STAIN	anagram	AINTS, ANTIS, ASNIT, ASTIN, INSTA, ISTAN, ITSAN, NITAS, SAINT, SANIT, SANTI, SATIN, TAINS, TANIS, TINAS, TISAN

We have 284 clues for the answer “STAIN”

Clue	Answers
"Mancha," translated from Spanish	1 answer
"Razors pain you ... Acids ___ you" (Dorothy Parker)	1 answer
"The Human ___" (Philip Roth)	1 answer
'93 Living Colour album	1 answer
A dirty mark or discolouration	1 answer
A red wine one is hard to get out	1 answer
Alternative to varnish	1 answer
Annoying spot	1 answer
Bio lab preparation	1 answer
Biz target	1 answer
Blemish on a tie	1 answer
Blood leaves one	1 answer
Blot on a reputation	1 answer
Blot on one's escutcheon	1 answer
Blotch on a baby's bib (or a parent's shirt)	1 answer
Blotch on a bib	1 answer
Blotch on a blouse	1 answer
Bring discredit upon	1 answer
Carpet blemish	1 answer
Carpet cleaner target	1 answer
Carpet cleaner's target	1 answer
Carpet mark	1 answer
Cheer target	1 answer
Cleaner's problem	1 answer
Cleaning concern	1 answer
Cleaning problem	1 answer
Clothing discoloration	1 answer
Coffee spot	1 answer
Coffee-spill result	1 answer
Color glass or wood.	1 answer
Color or discolor	1 answer
Color, as glass	1 answer
Color, as glass or wood	1 answer
Coloring for lips and cheeks	1 answer
Couch blotch	1 answer
Darken, as wood	1 answer
Deck application	1 answer
Deck finish	1 answer
Discoloration on clothing	1 answer
Discolored spot	1 answer
Discolored spot on clothes	1 answer
Dry cleaner's problem	1 answer
Dye mixture.	1 answer
Dye or pigment.	1 answer
Ensanguine	1 answer
Fabric discoloration	1 answer
Fantastik assignment?	1 answer
Fashion tip: You can't see one on your outfit if you dress like a ninja!	1 answer
Finish up some furniture	1 answer
Foulard spoiler	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETREA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with STAIN (5)

The story of what had happened was written plainly on the orchard grass, and on the white mulberries that had fallen in the night and were covered with dark stain.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Had she known Boldwood’s moods, her blame would have been fearful, and the stain upon her heart ineradicable.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

His son, too, inherited the persecuting spirit, and made himself so conspicuous in the martyrdom of the witches, that their blood may fairly be said to have left a stain upon him.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Think of it—I did not even exist! Let me but escape into my laboratory door, give me but a second or two to mix and swallow the draught that I had always standing ready; and whatever he had done, Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain of breath upon a mirror; and there in his stead, quietly at home, trimming the midnight lamp in his study, a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion, would be Henry Jekyll.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

The red stain upon my point roused to its full the old blood-lust of the fighting man that has ever been so strong within my breast, so that my blade flew through the air with a swiftness and deadly accuracy that threw the two remaining therns into wild despair.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with STAIN (3)

Beannacht / Blessing On the day whenthe weight deadenson your shouldersand you stumble, may the clay danceto balance you. And when your eyesfreeze behindthe grey windowand the ghost of lossgets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure bluecome to awaken in youa meadow of delight. When the canvas fraysin the currach of thoughtand a stain of oceanblackens beneath you, may there come across the watersa path of yellow moonlightto bring you safely home. May…

John O. Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Terry Goodkind Soul of the Fire

We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatter…

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 364 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).