skewback
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 23
- Words With Friends
- 25
- Letters
- 8
Definition of skewback
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.
“The avalanche shelter itself consists of a series of heavily reinforced arches, supported by substantial piers on the cliff-side, and on skewbacks cut deep into the rock on the other.”
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Etymology
From skew + back.
Words you can make from skewback
83 playable · top: WACKES (15 pts)
Best play wackes 15 points5-letter words
13 words4-letter words
33 words- KECK 14 pts
- BAWK 13 pts
- WACK 13 pts
- BACK 12 pts
- BECK 12 pts
- EKKA 12 pts
- SKEW 11 pts
- WAKE 11 pts
- WEAK 11 pts
- WEKA 11 pts
- BAKE 10 pts
- BASK 10 pts
- BEAK 10 pts
- CAKE 10 pts
- CASK 10 pts
- KABS 10 pts
- SACK 10 pts
- CAWS 9 pts
- SWAB 9 pts
- WABS 9 pts
- WEBS 9 pts
- CABS 8 pts
- KAES 8 pts
- KEAS 8 pts
- SAKE 8 pts
- SCAB 8 pts
- AWES 7 pts
- WAES 7 pts
- ACES 6 pts
- BAES 6 pts
- BASE 6 pts
- CASE 6 pts
- SABE 6 pts
3-letter words
26 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
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