Lorica is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 128 anagrams from letters in lorica (acilor).
1700-10; (def 1) New Latin, special use of Latin lōrīca corselet (orig. of leather), akin to lōrum thong; (def 2) Latin
lorica, lo-rī′ka, n. in ancient Rome, a cuirass made of thongs—also Lor′ic (Browning).
The animal is attached, as in the closely allied genus Tintinnus, by a peduncle to the bottom of the lorica.
Sometimes the mouth becomes twisted and the lorica is therefore bilateral.
The animals are similarly fastened to the lorica, sometimes directly, sometimes by means of a short stalk.
The tube of the Œcistes is called a "lorica," or carapace; but it has in truth no right whatever to the appellation.
The body is often provided with not-living external formations “stalk” and “theca” (or “lorica”).
When they contract they draw back to the bottom of the lorica; when expanded they usually stretch out of the mouth opening.
Panza, abdomen, alvus; whence Panzeria, lorica qu ventrem tegit.
The lorica is swollen posteriorly, narrowest at the oral margin, bent on its axis and is supported on a short stalk.