Crossword-Solution: UMBER 5 letters, 107 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Umber	n.	A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.
Umber	n.	An umbrere.
Umber	n.	See Grayling, 1.
Umber	n.	An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.
Umber	a.	Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.
Umber	v. t.	To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
UMBER	anagram	BRUME, UMBRE

We have 107 clues for the answer “UMBER”

Clue	Answers
"Burnt" brown color	1 answer
"Burnt" shade of brown	1 answer
"Raw" or "burnt" hue	1 answer
*It might be real or imaginary	1 answer
A brown pigment	1 answer
A kind of earth	1 answer
B(eams f)ro(m he)wn t(rees used as c)on(struction mat)e(rial)	1 answer
BROWN earth pigment	1 answer
Brown earth tone	1 answer
Brown earth valued as a pigment.	1 answer
Brown earthy pigment	1 answer
Burnt ___ (old Crayola color)	1 answer
Color often described as "burnt"	1 answer
Cousin of sepia	1 answer
Dark earth pigment	1 answer
Dark shade of brown	1 answer
Darker-than-ocher pigment	1 answer
Darkish brown	1 answer
Dusky brown	1 answer
Dusky brown hue	1 answer
Earthy brown hue	1 answer
Earthy brown pigment	1 answer
It's burnt or raw	1 answer
It's usually either raw or burnt	1 answer
Moderate yellow-brown	1 answer
Usually dark brown material	1 answer
Word with raw or burnt	1 answer
an earth pigment	1 answer
brown color yellow	1 answer
dark brown to reddish-brown	1 answer
natural brown earth pigment	1 answer
of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments	1 answer
yellow brown color	1 answer
brown color pigment	2 answers
pigment brown color	2 answers
Palette color	2 answers
Dark reddish brown	2 answers
Dark reddish-brown	2 answers
'Burnt' hue	2 answers
Burnt ___, artist's pigment	2 answers
It may be burnt	2 answers
PIGMENT used as graining colour for tinting whites	2 answers
PIGMENT used as stainer on whites	2 answers
Raw or "burnt" color	2 answers
DEEP brown pigment	2 answers
Dark brown pigment	3 answers
Yellowish-brown color	3 answers
Burnt pigment	3 answers
PAINT pigment	3 answers
PIGMENT for paint	3 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

REETA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with UMBER (5)

The long storm was followed by a north-west gale, and when it was over, the hills took on their first umber tints, the sky grew more densely blue, and the big white clouds lay against the hills like snow-banks.

Summer Edith Wharton 2006

With a few colors, however, all the rest may be made thus: Orange, by Yellow and Red; Purple, with Blue and Red; Green, Blue and Yellow; Brown, with Umber, Carmine and Lamp Black; Scarlet, Carmine and Light Red.

American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994

The trampled earth of the river-banks and the peaty stain in the pools did not look drab but glowing umber, and the dark woods astir in the breeze did not look, as usual, dim blue with mere depth of distance, but more like wind-tumbled masses of some vivid violet blossom.

The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

Umber, seal brown, red, terra-cotta, orange, Nile green, emerald, purple, cobalt blue, gray, lilac, and many other colors, all rich with the depth of satin, glow wonderful as the craftiest textures.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1996

The French, which call the Chub Un Villain, call the Umber of the lake Leman Un Umble Chevalier; and they value the Umber or Grayling so highly, that they say he feeds on gold; and say, that many have been caught out of their famous river of Loire, out of whose bellies grains of gold have been often taken.

The Compleat Angler Izaak Walton 1996

Quotes with UMBER (3)

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

Tom Wolfe From Bauhaus to Our House

Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.

P.W. Catanese Dragon Games

I haven't been around here for long. Well... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.

P.W. Catanese Happenstance Found

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 86 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).