Elapses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 161 anagrams from letters in elapses (aeelpss).
1635-45; Latin ēlapsus (past participle of ēlābī to slip away), equivalent to e- e-1 + lab- slip + -sus for -tus past participle suffix
He could have allowed a decent interval to elapse after the disastrous air strike, and then ordered the supply route reopened.
The length of time which must elapse before the trial could come on was dreadful.
But four days at least must elapse before they could hope to leave it.
Years may elapse before work can be resumed—years of dependence and anxiety.
I allowed at least half a minute to elapse before I even lifted up my eyes.
It will make a far greater difference if twenty years elapse.
Seas will not now divide us, nor years elapse before we see each other.
Do you always allow three months to elapse between your visits?
It was Thursday morning, and three days must elapse before his release.
Weeks might elapse, or months even, when no soul passed that way.