Chitins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 110 anagrams from letters in chitins (chiinst).
1830-40; French chitine Greek chit(ṓn) tunic, chiton + French -ine -in2
chitinization: the process of depositing or filling with chitin.
The cuticle is a dead substance, and is composed in large part of chitin.
If you had no bones, you would be glad to have your skin hardened with chitin.
Platelet: a little plate or sclerite of chitin in a membrane.
Its physical and chemical qualities seem to approach those of chitin.
Its head is probably too thickly coated with chitin to excite their discharge.
Yes, May, this little cast is made of chitin, and it will last a long time.
chitin, kī′tin, n. the substance which forms most of the hard parts of jointed footed animals.
The chitin armor of the whole body is specially heavy and strong, affording a great protection to the insect.
One of these has been certainly identified as chitin or a closely similar substance.