Cross-Wind is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 312 anagrams from letters in cross-wind (-cdinorssw).
First recorded in 1915-20
The effect of a cross wind is to drive the stern of a boat to leeward, and to bring her bows up into the wind.
A cross wind helped it along into the rough grass, leaving him a nasty second shot over shrubbery and trees.
In such a cross wind station alone sufficed to decide the race, and Boyd won easily.
Thus we see that in 130 yards the most roughly-marked ball in a cross wind is deflected twelve yards.
In this passage Ulysses represents himself as a mariner, driven by some cross wind out of his course into Ithaca.
Let me give him this piece of advice: very rarely slice as a remedy against a cross wind.
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