Crossword-Solution: TONSIL 6 letters, 60 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Tonsil	n.	One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TONSIL	anagram	LISTON, LOSTIN, NILOTS, SLOTIN

We have 60 clues for the answer “TONSIL”

Clue	Answers
Removable throat lump	1 answer
Immune system organ	1 answer
It might be removed with a guillotine	1 answer
It sticks in your throat	1 answer
It's stuck in your throat	1 answer
Lymphoid lump	1 answer
Lymphoid mass	1 answer
Mass of lymphoid tissue	1 answer
Mass of tissue at the back of the mouth	1 answer
Neck tissue	1 answer
One of a pair: Anat.	1 answer
Oral extract, maybe	1 answer
PALATE, oval mass of lymphoid tissue at back of the	1 answer
Partner of the adenoid.	1 answer
It can be inflamed	1 answer
Removable throat tissue	1 answer
Renal : kidney :: amygdaline : ___	1 answer
Situs for an "itis"	1 answer
Something spoken of at oral exams	1 answer
Throat extract, at times	1 answer
Throat feature	1 answer
Throat mass	1 answer
Throat occupier	1 answer
Throat part that can be removed	1 answer
Throat part that may be ectomy'd	1 answer
___ hockey (French kissing, humorously)	1 answer
either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx	1 answer
feature Throat ailment	1 answer
Frequent basis for -itis or -ectomy.	1 answer
Each one gradually undergoes atrophy after puberty	1 answer
Commonly removed tissue	1 answer
Commonly removed throat tissue	1 answer
Body part whose Greek word is also Greek for "almond"	1 answer
Body part that may be removed	1 answer
Adenoid, e.g.	1 answer
Adenoid neighbor	1 answer
Hanging blob at the back of a throat	1 answer
Throat tissue	2 answers
Uvula neighbor	2 answers
Lump in the throat	2 answers
amygdala	2 answers
Pharynx neighbor	2 answers
Hockey implement	2 answers
One down in the mouth	2 answers
Neighbor of the larynx.	2 answers
Pain in the neck, at times?	2 answers
It's down in the mouth	3 answers
Lump in one's throat	5 answers
Throat part	5 answers
Part of the throat.	5 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AREET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TONSIL (5)

Still, if the cause is carefully sought there will generally be found a source of infection, a septic process somewhere, possibly a gonorrhea, a septic tonsil or even a pyorrhea alveolaris.

DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D. 2003

The dry, troublesome, tickling cough is generally due to a congestion of the blood vessels at the base of the tongue, in the lingual tonsil region, or possibly in the larynx.

DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D. 2003

The chronic inflammation of the pharynx and subacute or chronic irritation of the lingual tonsil, causing the tickling, irritating, dry cough of inhalers of tobacco, is too well known, to need description.

DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D. 2003

Then to the tonsil man, who saw a distinct "focus," now there, a focus in the tonsils! Nose and ears without focus or focii or focuses.

The Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin K. Lane 2003

And they felt as big as footballs now, and, oh, so sore! The doctor decided he had "tonsil-eatus"--a funny name.

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson 2005

Quotes with TONSIL (3)

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

Gillian Flynn Sharp Objects

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman’s body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fing…

Gillian Flynn Sharp Objects

Lord Ironman, please play tonsil hockey with me, just this one time. There, does that make you happy?

Mercy Celeste Wicked Game

Where this answer appears

Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 85 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).