Definitions for cheekbone

cheekbone cheek·bone

Spelling: [cheek-bohn]
IPA: /ˈtʃikˌboʊn/

Cheekbone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in cheekbone (bceeehkno).

Definitions for cheekbone

noun

  1. the zygomatic bone.
  2. the part of that bone below the eye forming the prominence of the cheek.
  3. the area of the cheek overlying this bone.

Origin of cheekbone

before 1000; Middle English chekbon, Old English ceacban. See cheek, bone

Examples for cheekbone

It broke the skin on his cheekbone and forehead and blood ran from the cuts.

One eye was closed, and began to be discoloured, taking on above the cheekbone the shot green and purple of a half-ripe plum.

Very lightly his fingers traveled from her cheekbone to her jaw.

I jerked my head aside far enough that the scalpel grated along my cheekbone instead of slashing my mouth.

Dominique bore an ugly cut, half-healed yet, reaching from his right eyebrow across the cheekbone—the gash of an Indian knife.

It looped in mid-air and slashed the man's face from chin to cheekbone.

His whiskers were an untamed sorrel bristling and across his cheekbone was the ugly scar of a half healed wound.

This time the ball fell on his cheekbone and raised a lump as round and as hard as a marble.

As he turned I saw a star-shaped blue scar above his cheekbone.

Put a piece of that sticking plaster on that cut across your cheekbone.

Word Value for cheekbone
Scrable

0

Words with friends

22

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