Joists is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 52 anagrams from letters in joists (ijosst).
1325-75; Middle English giste Old French Latin *jacitum support, noun use of neuter of Latin jacitus (past participle of jacēre to lie), equivalent to jaci- variant stem + -tus past participl
A joist was found on one end, driven nearly three feet into the ground.
No man, other than a union carpenter, would be allowed to even set a joist.
The house was so shaken that it gave way at every joist, and he was within an ace of dragging the whole grange over on end.
A roar of applause shook every board and joist of the building.
Fitz moved, joist in hand, towards the other side of the clump.
He put his knee against it and shoved, but the joist held firm.
Two small forks or bucks-horns fastened to a joist are indispensable articles for the support of the rifle.
I left him, father, but I tied him to a joist in the ceiling with a long rope.
Fumbling about this, Wilson discovered in the corner several pieces of joist, and these he propped against the door.
She had caught sight of one of my feet underneath the joist that served as a wedge to keep the cask in place.