Definitions for cavity

cavity cav·i·ty

Spelling: [kav-i-tee]
IPA: /ˈkæv ɪ ti/

Cavity is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in cavity (acitvy).

Definitions for cavity

noun

  1. any hollow place; hollow.
  2. Anatomy. a hollow space within the body, an organ, a bone, etc.
  3. a hollow space or a pit in a tooth, most commonly produced by caries. A cavity may be artificially made to support dental restorations.

Origin of cavity

1535-45; Middle French cavite Late Latin cavitās hollowness, equivalent to Latin cav(us) hollow + -itās -ity

Examples for cavity

Within the cavity lay a sword, with a golden hilt, and a pair of sandals.

Take a “cavity bomb,” for example: explosives hidden in rolls of fat, between butt cheeks.

One of the peasants was throwing the first shovelful of earth into the cavity.

The subgleba broad, occupying about one-third of the cavity.

Then fill up the cavity with marmalade, or with lemon and sugar.

In police work, that's called a custody search that includes everything short of a cavity search.

And he bent forward and compelled her also to stoop over the cavity.

Suddenly, he poked his head down to the very bottom of this cavity.

Wherever a cavity forms in the body lymph is liable to enter it.

All the interior of the net he made of fire, but the lesser weels and their cavity, of air.

Word Value for cavity
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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