Definitions for nautilus

nautilus nau·ti·lus

Spelling: [nawt-l-uh s, not-]
IPA: /ˈnɔt l əs, ˈnɒt-/

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

You can make 268 anagrams from letters in nautilus (ailnstuu).

Definitions for nautilus

noun

  1. Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus. any cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, having a spiral, chambered shell with pearly septa.
  2. paper nautilus.
  3. (initial capital letter) the first nuclear-powered submarine launched by the U.S. Navy.

Origin of nautilus

1595-1605; Latin Greek nautílos paper nautilus, literally, sailor, derivative of naûs ship; the webbed dorsal arms of the paper nautilus were thought to have been used as sails

Examples for nautilus

There is only one, and that is to get these two schooners safe alongside of the nautilus.

The crew consisted of ten seamen from the nautilus and the Constitution, all volunteers.

The typical form was closely coiled like a nautilus (Fig. 325).

There is something about being in Captain Nemo's nautilus that makes the absinthe taste even better.

For answer, every man and boy on the nautilus advanced two steps.

My uncle said he was rather doubtful that, when alive, the nautilus did float on the water.

The nautilus is not ours, and we have not the right to dispose of it.

The "nautilus," it will be remembered, was captured early in the war.

The septa are simple in some species, as in the nautilus, fig. 13.

Great was my delight, on getting it on board, to find that a nautilus had been caught.

Word Value for nautilus
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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