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Showing words for DOWEL using the English dictionary

5 Letter Words for Dowel

dowel, dowle, lowed, owled

4 Letter Words for Dowel

dole, dowl, elod, lewd, lode, loed, lowe, odel, owed, weld, wode, wold

3 Letter Words for Dowel

del, dew, dle, doe, dol, dow, edo, eld, led, leo, lew, lod, loe, low, ode, old, ole, owd, owe, owl, wed, wod, woe

Definitions for Dowel

[1] Also called dowel pin . Carpentry . a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
[2] a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork.
[3] a round wooden rod of relatively small diameter.
[4] Dentistry . a peg, usually of metal, set into the root canal of a natural tooth to give additional support to an artificial crown.
[5] to reinforce or furnish with a dowel or dowels.
[6] a wooden or metal peg that fits into two corresponding holes to join two adjacent parts Also called: dowel pin

Words related to Dowel

peg, pin

Words nearby Dowel

dowager, dowager's hump, dowden, dowding, dowdy, dowel, doweling, dowell, dower, dower chest, dower house

Origin of Dowel

1300–50; Middle English dowle < Middle Low German dovel plug; compare German Döbel, Dübel, Old High German tubili

Other words from Dowel

un·dow·eled , adjective
un·dow·elled , adjective

Word origin for Dowel

C14: from Middle Low German dövel plug, from Old High German tubili; related to Greek thuphos wedge

Synonyms for Dowel

peg, pin