Definitions for icefalls

icefalls ice·fall

Spelling: [ahys-fawl]
IPA: /ˈaɪsˌfɔl/

Icefalls is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 293 anagrams from letters in icefalls (acefills).

Definitions for icefalls

noun

  1. a jumbled mass of ice in a glacier.
  2. a mass of ice overhanging a precipice.
  3. a falling of ice from a glacier, iceberg, etc.

Origin of icefalls

First recorded in 1810-20; ice + fall

Examples for icefalls

Coming back through the icefall on Friday the boys missed two rock falls by no more than three minutes.

It had always seemed improbable that these were sracs such as one meets on an Alpine icefall, and clearly they were not.

Some way up or by the side of the icefall of the Lobbia Glacier is yet to be found, but is probably possible.

Even as we entered the icefall our feet had occasionally broken the crust; as we came out of it we were stamping a trail.

In ten minutes we came to another corridor like the first, which brought us out above the icefall.

Sadly one Sherpa, from another team, has now been killed in the icefall.

Changed "icefall" to "ice-fall" on page xxvi: "part of ice-fall."

It seemed best to climb the rocks and avoid complications in the icefall.

Word Value for icefalls
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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