Clues for the word "ROOT"
We've had 326 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 797 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 18, 2026.
Definition of root
- v. i. - To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
- v. i. - Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
- v. t. - To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
- n. - The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
- n. - The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
- n. - An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
- n. - That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
- n. - An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
- n. - A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
- n. - The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
- n. - That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
- n. - The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- n. - The lowest place, position, or part.
- n. - The time which to reckon in making calculations.
- v. i. - To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- v. i. - To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- v. t. - To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
- v. t. - To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
Referring Clues
- Tooth part
- 2, to 4 or 8
- Plant anchorer
- Cheer (for)
- Eradicate, with "out"
- Carrot or turnip, e.g.
- Pull (out)
- Cheer
- Applaud (for)
- Edible part of a parsnip
- Kind of vegetable
- Take 5, clue 1
- Dig like a pig
- ___ canal
- Source
- Origin
- Underground part
- Carrot, e.g.
- Dig (for)
- One may be square
- What fans do
- See 53-Down
- What many a word has
- Hair implant?
- Radish or carrot
- Tree's anchor
- Etymologist's concern
- Extirpate, with "out"
- Etymology info
- Poke (around)
- Lexicographic concern
- Canine part
- Etymological basis
- Underlying cause
- Carrot or radish
- Etymologist's interest
- Chant with the cheerleaders
- Tooth anchor
- Underground plant part
- Part of a tooth
- Bicuspid base
- Equation answer, perhaps
- Cheer for your team
- Tooth's anchor
- Word with canal and cellar
- Word before beer or canal
- Radish, for one
- Pull for
- Plant anchor
- Word with beer or cellar
- Word preceding canal or cellar
- Radish or carrot, e.g.
- The C in a C major chord, for example
- Plant part
- Pull (for)
- Cheer for the home team, in song
- Carrot, radish, or parsnip
- Cheer the home team
- Dig about
- Canine anchor
- Make good cheer?
- Word with square or cube
- ___ canal (dental operation)
- See 25-Across
- ___ mean square (statistics calculation)
- Parsnip, e.g.
- Quadratic formula solution
- Botanical anchor
- Support, with "for"
- Show bias
- 10-Down target
- Hair anchor
- Canine support
- Fans do it
- It engages in underground activity
- Show favoritism
- Ultimate cause
- Shout 5 Down, maybe
- Show support
- Say, "Go, team!"
- Be partial to, with "for"
- It's underground
- Underground supporter
- Horseradish sauce source
- It may dig in deep
- Weakest of beers
- It may form underground connections
- Search for truffles
- Rummage for truffles, e.g.
- Bicuspid part
- Part of an underground network?
- Horseradish source
- Word with "ginger" or "square"
- Dental canal
- Fans do it!
- Word with canal or beer
- Show team spirit
- Cheer for one's team
- Tooth or plant part
- Follow the cheerleader
- It may be square
- Try to find truffles
- Ginseng, for one
- Carrot or turnip
- Underground stem
- Plant's underground part
- Carrot or cassava
- Underground development
- Be partial to, with "for"
- Say, "Go, team!"
- Tree anchor
- Equation answer
- "... ___ for the home team/ If they don't win ..."
- Support goals, e.g.
- Underground part of a plant
- Radish or turnip
- Square ___
- Anchor in the ground
- Tooth or hair part
- Weed part
- Tree part
- Basis
- Rummage
- Radish, e.g.
- Cheer on, with "for"
- Ginger or ginseng
- Sniff out
- Onion or yam
- Anchor for a bay
- Carrot or parsnip
- Molar's anchor
- "Money is the ___ of all ..."
- Bottom part of a hair
- Part of a plant or tooth
- Kind of beer
- Carrot, radish or parsnip
- Plant holder?
- Horseradish, e.g.
- Encourage the team
- Act like a pig, in a way
- Rummage through
- Pigs do it
- Underground support
- Part of a radish
- Fundamental part
- A cube has one
- Yam, for one
- Yam or turnip
- Fundamental cause
- Turnip or parsnip
- Carrot, for one
- Underground growth
- Stephen of "NewsRadio"
- Dig for truffles
- Repeated word in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
- Hair part
- i, for -1
- Rummage (through)
- ___ beer
- Turnip, e.g.
- Basic core
- Burrow, ferret
- Part of a carrot
- Hair piece
- Jícama or ginger
- File system's master directory
- Show team support
- Cheer for a team
- Stomp your feet and shout, perhaps
- Part of a hair
- Chord base
- Base
- Most important part of a carrot or turnip plant
- Bottom of a hair
- Show partiality
- It grows beneath the surface
- Ultimate source
- Word sung three times before "for the home team" in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
- Type of canal in a dentist's office
- Foundation
- Support the team
- Heart
- Jicama or ginseng
- Radish part
- Plant's anchor
- Part of a plant
- What fans do for their team
- Plant part underground
- Plant of a plant or tree
- Part of a plant that stays underground
- Plant feature
- Cube ___
- Part of a plant or tree
- Word after ginger or square
- Embedded part of a tooth (4)
- Part of a tree or bush
- Plant's underground structure
- Embedded part of a tooth
- Cheer in a battle of the bands
- Musician origin
- Bass note of a chord, usually
- Kind of note
- Deftones song about a tree system?
- "Send Me on My Way" Rusted ___
- Turn up with the snout.
- Cheer for band
- Bass note of a chord
- Organ that anchors plants in the ground
- See 10
- It's basic in maths
- Underground part of plant
- It doesn't normally grow up
- Part of plant drawing nutrients from soil
- Source of decay overhead to be included
- Reason android has no heart
- Origin - stem
- Hunt in kangaroo territory
- Unrestricted user account on a computer
- Follicle filler
- Square part of a plant?
- Sassafras, e.g.
- Beech anchor
- Cheer, or type of beer
- Lowest note in a chord
- Downward grower
- A down-to-earth part
- Nose around source
- Joe ___, England cricket captain
- Cause of tin man losing heart?
- Joey has time for grub
- Go off clutching old turnip, perhaps
- See clues page
- Mechanical man with no heart for the cause
- Larch part
- Cheer, as for the home team
- Radish or taro
- Square ___ (what 4 is for 16)
- Artichoke's anchor
- Edible part of a carrot or radish
- Beet, e.g.
- Pull for a team
- Potential drain obstruction
- Embedded tooth part
- Alder's anchor
- See 8
- Rutabaga or turnip
- Licorice, e.g.
- Part of a 60-Across
- Carrot or beet
- Mandrake, for one
- Herbicide's target
- Turnip or rutabaga
- Yam or carrot
- Carrot (always) or stick (sometimes)
- Turnip or carrot
- Part of an underground network?
- Rummage (around)
- Search around for something down to earth
- Licorice or ginger
- Sequoia support
- Ginseng, e.g.
- Possibly square part of a plant?
- The Gaelic "uisge beatha," meaning "water of life," for "whiskey"
- Square part of a plant?
- Plant base
- Anchor
- Beet or ginger
- Plant’s anchor
- Forest trail hazard
- Ginseng or ginger, for example
- Thing a plant puts down
- Bottom of the kangaroo tail
- Plant holder?
- Ginger, e.g.
- Applaud
- Fundamental source
- Part of a turnip
- Trunk supporter
- Carrot or daikon, e.g.
- Weed killer's target
- Word before "beer" or "vegetable"
- Part of a growing carrot
- Turnip, for one
- Ginger or daikon
- Taro or turnip
- Two, for four
- Part of a tree
- Plant stabilizer
- What good home team fans do
- Original cause
- Daikon or cassava
- Plant part that most herbicides attack
- What fans and pigs do
- Love of money, to all evil?
- Important part of a radish
- Plant part that's underground
- The C of C major, e.g.
- Edible part of a taro plant
- Daikon or taro
- Jicama, e.g.
- Daikon, e.g.
- Turnip or beet
- Etymology concern
- Nose (around)
- Ube or beet, for example
- Word with square and cube
- Carrot or jicama
- Part of a tooth or a tree
- Part of a healthy plant
- Part of a growing plant
- Part of a hair or a tooth
- Tuber
- Shout cheerily for support!
- Part of a beet or radish
- Orange part of a carrot plant
- Flower part
- Underground grower
- Maca or radish
- Daikon or beet
- Word that can precede vegetable or beer
- ___ cellar
- Dentist's canal?
- Daikon or turnip
- ___ beer float
- Many a storage crop
- Word sung three times in a row in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 18, 2026
- LA Times - February 08, 2026
- LA Times - February 03, 2026
- Daily American - January 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 23, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 12, 2026
- New York Times - January 11, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 10, 2026
- New York Times - January 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 01, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 29, 2025
- Daily American - December 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 20, 2025
- Daily American - October 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2025
- LA Times - October 13, 2025
- LA Times - October 12, 2025
- Daily American - October 10, 2025
- New York Times - October 07, 2025
- Daily American - October 06, 2025
- LA Times - October 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 27, 2025
- Daily American - September 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 07, 2025
- Daily American - May 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 07, 2025
- LA Times - April 24, 2025
- And in 767 more crossword puzzles...