7 Letter Words for Pincers
crispen, encrisp, pincers, princes
6 Letter Words for Pincers
crepis, crines, cripes, pernis, persic, pincer, precis, prices, prince, repins, respin, ripens, scrine, sniper, spicer
5 Letter Words for Pincers
cerin, cines, cires, cries, crine, cripe, crips, crise, crisp, epics, epris, erics, icers, insep, nicer, penis, peris, perns, piers, piner, pines, pirns, price, pries, prine, recip, reins, repic, repin, resin, rices, rines, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, scrin, scrip, sepic, seric, serin, sicer, since, siper, siren, snerp, snipe, speir, spice, spier, spine, spire
4 Letter Words for Pincers
cens, ceps, cern, cine, cire, cres, crin, crip, cris, crpe, epic, eric, erin, eris, erns, icer, ices, incr, insp, ipse, ires, irpe, neps, nice, nies, nips, nsec, pecs, peni, pens, peri, pern, pers, pice, pics, pien, pier, pies, pine, pins, pirn, pirs, pise, pnce, prec, pres, prie, prin, psec, recs, rein, reps, resp, rice, ries, rine, rins, ripe, rips, risc, rise, risp, seir, sepn, sice, sien, sier, sine, sipe, sire, snip, spec, spic, spie, spin
3 Letter Words for Pincers
cen, cep, cer, cie, cir, cis, cns, cpi, cpr, cps, crs, csi, csp, eir, enc, ens, epi, ern, ers, esc, esp, esr, ice, inc, ins, ipr, ips, ire, irs, ise, isn, nei, nep, nie, nip, nis, pci, pec, pen, per, pes, pic, pie, pin, pir, pis, prc, pre, prn, prs, psi, rec, rei, rep, res, rie, rin, rip, rps, sci, scr, sec, sei, sen, sep, ser, sic, sie, sin, sip, sir, sri
Definitions for Pincers
[1] a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of ).
[2] Zoology . a grasping organ or pair of organs resembling this, as the claw of a lobster.
[3] Also called: pair of pincers a gripping tool consisting of two hinged arms with handles at one end and, at the other, curved bevelled jaws that close on the workpiece: used esp for extracting nails
[4] the pair or pairs of jointed grasping appendages in lobsters and certain other arthropods
Words related to Pincers
tongs, pliers, forceps
Words nearby Pincers
pinbone, pince-nez, pincement, pincer movement, pincer nail, pincers, pincers movement, pinch, pinch bar, pinch effect, pinch graft
Origin of Pincers
1300–50; Middle English pinsers, earlier pynceours, plural of *pinceour < Anglo-French pince(r ) to pinch + -our -or2
Word origin for Pincers
C14: from Old French pinceour, from Old French pincier to pinch
Synonyms for Pincers
forceps, pliers, tongs
