The word found after unscrambling pigment means that dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.), any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color, a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating, acquire pigment; become colored or imbued, color or dye with a pigment, .