Cretins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 252 anagrams from letters in cretins (ceinrst).
1770-80; French; Franco-Provençal creitin, crestin human being, literally, Christian (hence one who is human despite deformities)
Of course, many people have goitre who are not cretins, but there is no cretin who has not goitre.
Something of the goître and cretin influence seems to settle on my spirits sometimes, on the lower ground.
On the Rigi his musings on the magnificence of the view are checked by the presence of a cretin.
The poetical whim of cretin, a French poet, brought into fashion punning or equivocal rhymes.
It is very commonly accompanied by idiocy; and, in fact, the cretin is one of the most distressing objects that can be seen.
Another author mentions a cretin who could tell exactly the birthdays and death-days of the inhabitants of his town for a decade.
“It was rather a chouse to shoot a cretin, though,” said another, in chaff.
Every crank's whim, every cretin's philosophy, is fired at him first of all.
Only twelve kinds of a cretin would have gone on when faced with anything like this.
The cretin, whose eyes caught a glimpse of the cake, laughed, and began to try to reach out her hand to take it.
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