Definitions for fauces

fauces fau·ces

Spelling: [faw-seez]
IPA: /ˈfɔ siz/

Fauces is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in fauces (acefsu).

Definitions for fauces

noun

  1. Anatomy. the cavity at the back of the mouth, leading into the pharynx.
  2. a vestibule of an ancient Roman house.

Origin of fauces

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin

Examples for fauces

The floor of the fauces, as of many of the other rooms, is rich in color.

fauces, the passage from the atrium to the peristyle in a Roman house.

The tonsils are lodged in the fauces at the sides of the root of the tongue.

The walls of the fauces are ornamented in an unusual manner.

Hence the fauces should be freely sprayed with a 5% solution of cocaine.

Redness and inflammation of the whole prim vi; and sometimes of the mouth, fauces, and sophagus, but more usually the contrary.

Inodorous; taste at first slightly bitter, leaving a peculiar sense of numbness on the tongue and fauces.

The vestibule and fauces have been mentioned previously (p. 249).

The throat and fauces were only slightly reddened, the tongue was furred.

It may, like any other artery, be wounded, especially from the fauces.

Word Value for fauces
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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