Caryatids is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 424 anagrams from letters in caryatids (aacdirsty).
1555-65; Latin Caryātides (singular Caryātis) Greek Karyā́tides columns shaped like women, literally, women of Karýai, Laconia
caryatid, kar-i-at′id, n. a female figure used instead of a column to support an entablature:—pl.
A restricted use of the caryatid Porch is a certain inference from the following facts.
In a word the caryatid Porch is not an arbitrary creation but is related in thought to the cult of the temple.
A procession moving from the Propylaea to the caryatid Porch had exactly the background of the sculptured figures.
She stands in the field like a caryatid, like a symbol of fertile nature.
She upheaved the heavy flour-sack to the same secure shelf with the upraised palms of an Egyptian caryatid.
The one on this side is resigned, and as beautiful as a caryatid.
Then he noticed Alicia, sitting motionless in her seat, just as he had left her, with the expressionless face of a caryatid.
It stood probably in the portico and may have served as a caryatid.
I do not know its history, though some one assured me that it was a caryatid.