liver
A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
Noun 4 meanings
A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
“Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.”
This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
“I'd like some goose liver pate.”
A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Adjective 1 meaning
Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
Etymology
From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”).
LIVER at a glance
LIVER has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (L 1 + I 1 + V 4 + E 1 + R 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,245 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with liver
All rhymesOne letter away
Keep going
Related lists
Looking for a different word?
Type the letters you have and the Finder shows every word that fits.