Definitions for fer-de-lance

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Spelling: [fer-dl-ans, -ahns]
IPA: /ˌfɛr dlˈæns, -ˈɑns/

Fer-De-Lance is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 460 anagrams from letters in fer-de-lance (--acdeeeflnr).

Definitions for fer-de-lance

noun

  1. a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.

Origin of fer-de-lance

1875-80; French: literally, spearhead

Examples for fer-de-lance

There ees a man who ees to be keeled dead, and you let heem go—that ees more foolish as to let the fer-de-lance free.

And of all bird-killing reptiles the fer-de-lance is the most destructive.

The fer-de-lance is a great destroyer of rats, this rodent forming its principal source of food.

He not only faces the fer-de-lance, who is often as big as he, but kills and eats him.

He is as decent a chap as it has ever been my privilege to know, and as much to be avoided on certain occasions as a fer-de-lance.

Per Labat had believed it possible to exterminate the fer-de-lance, and had adopted extraordinary measures for its destruction.

I had set the signal for the fer-de-lance to land in force and wipe Buckhurst and his grotesque crew from the face of the earth.

But the fer-de-lance, whose nearest home is in Guiana, is not likely to have come on board ship.

It may be the shortest route, indeed;—but then, the fer-de-lance!

Word Value for fer-de-lance
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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