Definitions for encysts

encysts en·cyst

Spelling: [en-sist]
IPA: /ɛnˈsɪst/

Encysts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in encysts (censsty).

Definitions for encysts

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to enclose or become enclosed in a cyst.

Origin of encysts

First recorded in 1835-45; en-1 + cyst

Examples for encysts

Thence they are apt to migrate or stray into the lungs and liver, where they encyst themselves.

The Cercari part with their tails, and subsequently they encyst themselves on or within the surface of the body of some mollusk.

She has had to encyst it, or it would be to her Senegal and French Guinea possessions a regular main to lay on smuggling.

Word Value for encysts
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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