Carapaces is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 272 anagrams from letters in carapaces (aaacceprs).
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.
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.
I walked back to my desk, keeping the satisfaction locked tight within a carapace of steely unconcern, and took in the scene.
The Monosphrida comprise all those Sphroidea in which the carapace is represented only by one single lattice-shell.
At least three segments of the trunk are left uncovered by the carapace.
In Chelonia the ribs are generally combined with the carapace.
It encases their loserdom in a carapace of purity and righteousness.
The last four or five segments of the trunk are free from the carapace.