Definitions for cromlech

cromlech crom·lech

Spelling: [krom-lek]
IPA: /ˈkrɒm lɛk/

Cromlech is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in cromlech (ccehlmor).

Definitions for cromlech

noun

  1. (no longer in technical use) a megalithic chamber tomb.

Origin of cromlech

1595-1605; Welsh, equivalent to crom bent, curved, crooked (feminine of crwm) + lech, combining form of llech flat stone

Examples for cromlech

Gaar wheeled, spurted around them and then around the cromlech.

"A gentleman should fight his own battles, cromlech," he cried to his friend.

It was not a cromlech after all, only a pile of boulders, so they turned back again.

This cromlech is surrounded by a trench and an earthen embankment.

The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.

This cromlech is called, by children in that neighbourhood, ‘Castle Correg.’

I trust cromlech as myself—that is, as far as I can see him.

Not unfrequently the entrance to the cromlech is approached by a sort of corridor.

This, cromlech, to a man who had determined to reform, who came home to assume—what was it?

The cromlech in Howth Park has been supposed to be her sepulchre.

Word Value for cromlech
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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