Fortress is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 184 anagrams from letters in fortress (eforrsst).
1300-50; Middle English forteresse Old French Vulgar Latin *fortaricia (compare Medieval Latin fortalitia), equivalent to Latin fort(is) strong + -ar-, formative of uncertain meaning +-icia <
“Sloviansk is like a fortress; [the Ukrainian Army] will have to destroy it to take it back,” one said.
After all, we have constructed fortress America at enormous cost.
The ancient Grande Mosque and Kasbah fortress line the main plaza square.
No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe.
Each of us believes what we choose to believe, and facts have become bricks to shore up the fortress of our own biases.
Thus the fortress must be taken before a gun or a waggon could move.
It was like trying to storm a medieval fortress with a popgun.
The fortress of the future will probably be in the nature of an intrenched camp.
Distant view of the city of Cuzco and of the Sacsahuaman hill, crowned by the fortress.
On my way back into town, I walked by the fortress of tents surrounding the harbor, readying for the yacht show.