Definitions for skullcap

skullcap skull·cap

Spelling: [skuhl-kap]
IPA: /ˈskʌlˌkæp/

Skullcap is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in skullcap (ackllpsu).

Definitions for skullcap

noun

  1. a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
  2. the domelike roof of the skull.
  3. Botany. any of various plants belonging to the genus Scutellaria, of the mint family, having a calyx resembling a helmet.

Origin of skullcap

First recorded in 1675-85; skull + cap1

Examples for skullcap

At one time he had had a fancy, for his health, to wear a sort of skullcap.

Solly Gumble removed his skullcap, fluffed his scanty ring of curls, and drew on the cap again.

We can understand, therefore, why Plumard screamed aloud when Bahuchet tried to remove his skullcap.

He took off his skullcap, and passed his hand over his soft white hair.

And there this year was Melching, translating again, but this time the deep voice of Demba Diawara, an elderly imam in a skullcap.

He does not wear a skullcap, the most prominent marker of Orthodox observance.

He looked like a Frenchman, by the way, and always wore a skullcap.

No one outside his inner circle had been made aware, because the cut could be hidden under his skullcap.

She smiled, and put up a hand to pat at her white hair under the Elizabethan skullcap.

The merchant debated, removing his skullcap, smoothing his grizzled fringe of curls, fitting the cap on again deliberately.

Word Value for skullcap
Scrable

16

Words with friends

21

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