Ossify is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 44 anagrams from letters in ossify (fiossy).
1705-15; Latin ossi- (stem of os) bone + -fy
Valves of the Aorta of a cartilaginous texture, as if beginning to ossify.
The other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed (p. 124).
But Philip seemed to ossify, every cord and muscle of his body frozen to stone by the conflict that raged within him.
The latter will always take care of themselves—the danger being that they rapidly tend to ossify us.
There is a general growth to be observed, and the bones are beginning to ossify.
"And give you indigestion and see you ossify for want of exercise under my indulgent eye," retorted her mother.
Convictions harden and grow, and differences magnify and ossify as the controversy progresses.
Does it liberate or suppress, ossify or render flexible, divide or unify interest?
The first vertebra to ossify is the second or third cervical, and the ossification gradually extends to those behind.
The mentomecklians do not ossify until approximately the same time that the quadratojugal appears in the upper jaw.