Carapace is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 119 anagrams from letters in carapace (aaaccepr).
1830-40; French Spanish carapacho, of obscure origin
It is also found on the carapace of crabs and Limulus, and on mollusks.
The arthropods in general were provided with a carapace; most of them were crustaceans.
I walked back to my desk, keeping the satisfaction locked tight within a carapace of steely unconcern, and took in the scene.
In Chelonia the ribs are generally combined with the carapace.
At least three segments of the trunk are left uncovered by the carapace.
Ian McEwan: Well, I think one way… I think you have to develop a carapace of boringness.
Greater awareness of that would soften their carapace of greed.
The last four or five segments of the trunk are free from the carapace.
The Monosphrida comprise all those Sphroidea in which the carapace is represented only by one single lattice-shell.
It encases their loserdom in a carapace of purity and righteousness.
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