Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "pencil" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

backpack classroom cup desk draw desk drawer desktop drawer meeting office office depot pencil box pencil case pencil holder pencil jar pocket schooldesk shelf stationery shop university

Capable Of

last for awhile leave marks on paper mark paper mark piece of paper shade sketch

Defined As

writing instrument

Derived Terms

automatic pencil beard pencil blue pencil doctrine blue-pencil bow pencil carpenter pencil carpenter's pencil caustic pencil china pencil click pencil clutch pencil color pencil colored pencil coloring pencil colour pencil coloured pencil colouring pencil drafting pencil eyebrow pencil golf pencil grease pencil hair pencil hot pencil kohl pencil lead in one's pencil lead pencil mechanical pencil not the sharpest pencil in the box number 2 pencil pen pencil pencil box pencil case pencil crayon pencil cricket pencil detonator pencil dick pencil fever pencil fish pencil flower pencil geek pencil heel pencil holder pencil in pencil ladder pencil lead pencil moustache pencil mustache pencil neck pencil out pencil parer pencil pine pencil pleat pencil pointer pencil pouch pencil pusher pencil pushing pencil sharpener pencil skirt pencil squid pencil stub pencil test pencil topper pencil tower pencil tree pencil whip pencil-blue pencil-neck pencil-necked pencil-post bed pencil-pusher pencil-skirted pencil-thin pencilbeam penciler pencilful pencillate pencilless pencilliform pencillike pencilly pencilmaker pencilmaking pencilwork power of the pencil propelling pencil red-pencil retractable pencil slate pencil styptic pencil technical pencil time pencil wax pencil № 2 pencil

Entails

trace

Has Part

graphite not lead lead

Context

geometry medicine optics physics

Has Property

good for writing and drawing

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

black lead cosmetic draw figure graphite plumbago writing implement

Type Of (IsA)

cosmetic figure graphite industrial equipment rigid portable object spiky thing tool for writing and drawing writing device writing implement writing item writing utinsel

Made Of

wood wood and lead

Manner Of

draw

Receives Action

made from graphite sharpened

Related Terms

aggregate aid bougie clad clay collection family for writing geometric graphite implement instrument lead light medicated paintbrush pen property ray shaft with lead wooden wooden pen write writing writing aid writing implement writing instrument

Used For

breaking doing math doodling draw portrait drawing picture erasing letter writing note taking scratching head scribbling write draft of document write on paper write story writing writing or drawing writing shopping list

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.