Definitions for ice-sheet

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Ice-Sheet is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in ice-sheet (-ceeehist).

Definitions for ice-sheet

noun

  1. a broad, thick sheet of ice covering an extensive area for a long period of time.
  2. a glacier covering a large fraction of a continent.

Origin of ice-sheet

First recorded in 1870-75

Examples for ice-sheet

The warmer Arctic has dramatically accelerated the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

The ice sheet did not come further south than the Thames valley.

At one time this ice sheet extended a mile further down and plunged over the abrupt precipice that walls the Avalanche basin.

This is the most southerly point to which the ice sheet reached.

As in any case we should have to cross the ice sheet, a path was sanded.

Was its bed, sea or dry land, or under an ice sheet, during the long ages of the glacial epoch?

Far to the south appeared an ice sheet, but it lay too far out of our course.

In the area beneath this ice sheet no trace of human occupation until long after this time occurs.

The edge of an ice sheet in such a region would be irregular.

Two of the species of sequoia escaped destruction in tracts the ice sheet did not overwhelm.

Word Value for ice-sheet
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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