Definitions for encases

encases en·case

Spelling: [en-keys]
IPA: /ɛnˈkeɪs/

Encases 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 123 anagrams from letters in encases (aceenss).

Definitions for encases

verb (used with object)

  1. to enclose in or as in a case:

Origin of encases

First recorded in 1625-35; en-1 + case2

Examples for encases

Dick was building an electric heating unit to encase the entire tube, which could be regulated for any desired temperature.

In 1870 it was customary to encase the sandwiches in pressed sole leather.

Her patient fairly off her hands, Mona seemed to encase herself with a cold reserve, as in a shell.

The true method is to encase the building in a network of rods, when it will take its charge quietly like a Leyden jar.

They also encase almost the entire body in a wooden and leathern armor.

Angelo cut a stout cloth to encase each of her feet, and bound them in it.

Of course, those spheres also encase it in a petrochemical prison.

Dante may build up his great triple universe in his great triple rhyme, and encase it in walls of brass.

They encase it in propolis, which preserves it from putrefaction.

Her voice was too strong, too assured, to encase in strict rules.

Word Value for encases
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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