Definitions for cockroach

cockroach cock·roach

Spelling: [kok-rohch]
IPA: /ˈkɒkˌroʊtʃ/

Cockroach is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in cockroach (accchkoor).

Definitions for cockroach

noun

  1. any of numerous orthopterous insects of the family Blattidae, characterized by a flattened body, rapid movements, and nocturnal habits and including several common household pests.

Origin of cockroach

1615-25; Spanish cucaracha, of uncertain origin, assimilated by folk etymology to cock1, roach2

Examples for cockroach

Crept about the decks like a wretched insect—like a cockroach, only not so lively.

cockroach begins with a failed suicide attempt by the protagonist.

Its egg was attached to the coxa of the midleg of the cockroach.

It has also the habit of paralysing the cockroach by stinging it on the nervous chain.

Then, as they stared they saw the cockroach was getting larger.

But not you, you can't; you ain't got the invention of a cockroach.

When the cockroach crawls, he knows whither and wherefore he wants to go?

Finally, the cockroach began to fly; then, for a while, he had matters his own way.

It was also full of s--t, a coach scrambling like a cockroach.

There is the cockroach, for example, which is so common and so mischievous in our houses.

Word Value for cockroach
Scrable

22

Words with friends

24

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