Dactylics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 356 anagrams from letters in dactylics (accdilsty).
1580-90; Latin dactylicus Greek daktylikós. See dactyl, -ic
Young gentlemen, there's a capital start on a fine, sonorous line, dactylic hexameter.
A dactylic origin of V as an open hand, complete with outstretched thumb, has been favoured.
Dolichurus, dol-i-kū′rus, n. a dactylic hexameter with a redundant syllable at the end, the sixth foot being a dactyl.
Miurus, mī-ū′rus, n. a dactylic hexameter with short penultimate syllable.
That is, if he ever was an infant, and called for his bottle in dactylic hexameter.
The metre of the song is dactylic; the accents being on the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th syllables.
dactylic lines are not common except in the imitations of the classical hexameter.
In dactylic hexameter how many of these feet are there in a line?
Thus in the Greek Hexameter the dactylic lines—those most abounding in dactyls—serve best to convey the idea of rapid motion.
The dactylic Pentameter consists of two parts, each of which contains two dactyls, followed by a long syllable.
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