Definitions for caries

caries car·ies

Spelling: [kair-eez, -ee-eez]
IPA: /ˈkɛər iz, -iˌiz/

Caries is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in caries (aceirs).

Definitions for caries

noun

  1. decay, as of bone or of plant tissue.
  2. dental caries.
  3. a female given name, form of Caroline.

Origin of caries

First recorded in 1625-35, caries is from the Latin word cariēs decay

Examples for caries

There are two forms of disease to which these teeth are liable; caries, or decay, and a loss of vitality, or death.

When caries is present, the symptoms do not materially differ from those described as indicating the death of a tooth.

Fire then mounting aloft, caries with it the impurities designed in the 10.

The eating of sweets, and especially the sticky sweets—preserves and the like—was recognized as an important source of caries.

The quality of Fijian teeth as reflected by frequency of caries is excellent.

It was a case of caries, they said, and Austin mustn't hunt sheep any more.

Scepticism, that caries of the intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea.

In some cases, the odor arising from caries is combined with that of the stomach.

In toothache arising from caries, and as a lotion to the temples in headache.

Nodes are generally accompanied with considerable pain, and often with caries and loss of vitality.

Word Value for caries
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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