Gneisses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 103 anagrams from letters in gneisses (eeginsss).
Borrowed into English from German around 1750-60
At the base of the descent, clay-slate rocks replaced the gneiss.
Everywhere granite, gneiss, or other primitive rocks, show themselves.
Come,” I said, “let us go back till we find the joining of the gneiss and granite.
Garnet, for example, is commonly found as crystals in gneiss and mica schist.
To it we diverged and found it to be gneiss similar to that of Aurora Peak.
My ground was on the gneiss side of the geological division.
The base of all was granite; then gneiss; and others followed in their order.
At their extremities they include some layers of gneiss and slate.
Here and there are mixtures of schist, gneiss, and porphyry.
The southern parts of this range of mountains are composed of gneiss and granite.