Pensile is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 170 anagrams from letters in pensile (eeilnps).
1595-1605; Latin pēnsilis hanging down, equivalent to pēns(us) past participle of pendēre to hang (equivalent to pend- verb stem + -tus past participle suffix, with dt > s) + -ilis
There it hung, like a hermits beard, from the pensile branch. These widely-spreading trees are favourites with the black wasps, to which they attach their pensile nests. Other species of Polybia build nests different in shape and arrangement, though still of the pensile character. Be careful to distinguish between pencil, an instrument for writing, and pensile, meaning hanging down. The oriole uses them the most successfully, often attaching her pensile nest to the branch by their aid. pensile in mid-heaven, gazest thou yet with seraphic sorrow on this, the guilty abode of guilty man? They were of the species known as the “pensile weaver-bird” (Ploceus pensilis). The "pensile Lilac" has been sung by many poets; but the spirit of the flower has been best portrayed in verse by Elizabeth Akers. In a flowering hawthorn outside our window we watched a loving pair building their pensile nest among the thorns and blossoms. They were of the species known as the “pensile weaver-bird.”Examples for pensile