Elapse is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 118 anagrams from letters in elapse (aeelps).
1635-45; Latin ēlapsus (past participle of ēlābī to slip away), equivalent to e- e-1 + lab- slip + -sus for -tus past participle suffix
Years may elapse before work can be resumed—years of dependence and anxiety.
The length of time which must elapse before the trial could come on was dreadful.
He could have allowed a decent interval to elapse after the disastrous air strike, and then ordered the supply route reopened.
Do you always allow three months to elapse between your visits?
I allowed at least half a minute to elapse before I even lifted up my eyes.
It was Thursday morning, and three days must elapse before his release.
But four days at least must elapse before they could hope to leave it.
Weeks might elapse, or months even, when no soul passed that way.
Seas will not now divide us, nor years elapse before we see each other.
It will make a far greater difference if twenty years elapse.