Definitions for lavas

lavas la·va

Spelling: [lah-vuh, lav-uh]
IPA: /ˈlɑ və, ˈlæv ə/

Lavas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in lavas (aalsv).

Definitions for lavas

noun

  1. the molten, fluid rock that issues from a volcano or volcanic vent.
  2. the rock formed when this solidifies, occurring in many varieties differing greatly in structure and constitution.

Origin of lavas

1740-50; Italian, orig. Neapolitan dialect: avalanche Latin lābēs a sliding down, falling, akin to lābī to slide

Examples for lavas

Communal distrust, in India, is lava always simmering beneath the skin.

I covered my face with my hat and rushed across the stream of lava.

They were paid $50 to play a tiny Los Angeles speakeasy called The lava Lounge—now The Woods.

He tickled the dun with his spurs and trotted along the crest of the lava ridge.

In a circle about it stood the dark buttress of the lava sides.

So he turned to craftsmen living at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius who had pioneered a technique for working with lava stone.

No longer would they have crazy adventures like campus-wide paintball and lava matches.

lava and ash fell for days; the sun was obliterated for three months.

They have all been at work like her, spouting ashes and pumice and rocks and lava.

The year 1800 saw the last of it on the lava law-rock of Thingvellir.

Word Value for lavas
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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