8 Letter Words for Construe
construe, cornutes, counters, recounts, trounces
7 Letter Words for Construe
conster, consute, conteur, contuse, conures, cornets, cornute, counter, couters, creston, cretons, cronets, croutes, custron, econuts, encrust, recount, rounces, scouter, secutor, snouter, tonsure, trounce, uncrest, unstore
6 Letter Words for Construe
censor, centos, centro, cerous, ceston, constr, conter, contes, conure, cornet, cornus, corset, cortes, coster, counts, coures, course, courts, couter, crones, cronet, cronus, croset, crosne, crouse, croute, crouts, cruent, cruets, cruset, curets, cursen, cutose, econut, entour, eructs, escort, escout, nestor, noster, noters, oncers, ounces, ouster, outers, recons, recost, rectos, rectus, recuts, roncet, rontes, rouens, rounce, routes, scoter, scrout, scrunt, scruto, sector, source, souren, souter, stoner, stoure, strone, tenors, tensor, toners, tornus, tourne, touser, troncs, trones, trouse, truces, tucson, tuners, uncore, uncost, unesco, unrest, unsore, unsort, ursone
5 Letter Words for Construe
cento, cents, centu, ceros, certs, cetus, coner, cones, const, conte, contr, conus, cores, corns, cornu, corse, cosen, coset, coste, cotes, count, coure, cours, court, crest, crone, crose, crost, crout, crues, cruet, crunt, cruse, crust, csnet, cunts, cures, curet, curns, curse, cuter, cutes, ecrus, enrut, eruct, escot, estoc, estro, euros, necro, nerts, norse, noser, noter, notes, notus, nurse, oncer, onces, oncet, oncus, oners, onset, orcus, ornes, ounce, outen, outer, outre, recon, recto, recut, rents, resun, rones, ronte, ronts, roset, rotes, rouen, roues, rouse, roust, route, routs, runes, runts, rusot, scent, scone, score, scorn, scote, scour, scout, scute, secno, senor, seron, serut, seton, snore, snort, snout, snurt, sonce, souce, souct, steno, stern, stero, stone, store, stoun, strue, sture, sucre, suent, sutor, tecon, tenor, tenso, terns, toner, tones, tonus, torcs, tores, torse, torus, touns, tourn, tours, touse, tronc, trone, trons, troue, truce, trues, tuner, tunes, turco, turns, turse, unces, uncos, unset, urent, urson, usent, uster, utero
4 Letter Words for Construe
cens, cent, cern, cero, cert, cest, coes, cone, cons, cont, core, corn, cors, cort, cose, cost, cote, cots, coue, cour, cres, crts, crue, crus, crut, cues, cunt, cuon, cure, curn, curs, curt, cust, cute, cuts, econ, ecru, ecto, ecus, ento, entr, eons, erns, eros, erst, eruc, eton, euro, nest, nets, neut, noes, nore, nose, note, nots, nous, nout, nsec, nurs, nuts, once, oner, ones, onst, onus, orcs, ores, orts, otus, ourn, ours, oust, outr, outs, recs, rect, reno, rent, rest, rets, rocs, roes, rone, ront, rose, rost, rotc, rote, rots, roue, roun, rous, rout, rucs, ruen, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, scet, scot, scun, scur, scut, seco, sect, sent, seor, sero, sert, snot, snur, soce, sone, sore, sorn, sort, sour, sout, sten, ster, stor, stre, stue, stun, suer, suet, sune, sunt, sure, tens, tern, tocs, toes, tone, tons, torc, tore, torn, tors, toru, tose, toun, tour, tres, tron, true, trun, tsun, tues, tune, tuno, tuns, turn, unce, unco, uncs, unct, unto, ures, urns, user, utes
3 Letter Words for Construe
cen, ceo, cer, cns, con, cor, cos, cot, cro, crs, crt, cru, cst, cte, ctn, cto, ctr, cts, cue, cun, cur, cut, eco, ect, ecu, enc, ens, eon, eos, ern, ers, ert, esc, esr, est, esu, etc, nco, neo, net, nor, nos, not, nur, nus, nut, oct, oer, oes, one, ons, ont, orc, ore, ors, ort, ose, otc, our, ous, out, rct, rec, res, roc, roe, ron, ros, rot, rte, ruc, rue, run, rut, scr, sct, sec, sen, ser, set, soc, son, sot, sou, str, sue, sun, sur, tec, ten, ter, tes, toc, toe, ton, tor, tos, tou, trs, tue, tun, tur, unc, uns, ure, urn, urs, use, ust, utc, ute, uts
Definitions for Construe
[1] to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
[2] to deduce by inference or interpretation; infer: He construed her intentions from her gestures.
[3] to translate, especially orally.
[4] to analyze the syntax of; to rehearse the applicable grammatical rules of: to construe a sentence.
[5] to arrange or combine (words, phrases, etc.) syntactically.
[6] to admit of grammatical analysis or interpretation.
[7] the act of construing.
[8] something that is construed.
[9] to interpret the meaning of (something) you can construe that in different ways
[10] (may take a clause as object) to discover by inference; deduce
[11] to analyse the grammatical structure of; parse (esp a Latin or Greek text as a preliminary to translation)
[12] to combine (words) syntactically
[13] (also intr) old-fashioned to translate literally, esp aloud as an academic exercise
[14] old-fashioned something that is construed, such as a piece of translation
Words related to Construe
translate, infer, interpret, define, parse, expound, render, read, explicate, understand, take, decipher, analyze
Words nearby Construe
constructive, constructive dismissal, constructive interference, constructivism, constructor, construe, consubstantial, consubstantiate, consubstantiation, consuela, consuetude
Origin of Construe
1325–75; Middle English construen < Latin construere to put together, build, equivalent to con- con- + struere to pile up, arrange, perhaps akin to sternere to spread, strew; see stratum
Other words from Construe
con·stru·er , noun
un·con·strued , adjective
Word origin for Construe
C14: from Latin construere to pile up; see construct
Synonyms for Construe
define, infer, interpret, parse, translate, analyze, decipher, explicate, expound, read, render, take, understand, figure it to be, one's best guess, spell out
