Petrifaction is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 1298 anagrams from letters in petrifaction (acefiinoprtt).
1640-50; petri- + -faction Latin factiōn- (stem of factiō) a making. See petrify, faction1
I stood there like a petrifaction—looking after him, vacant and motionless.
Zoolithus, the petrifaction of an animal of the class Mammalia.
For a moment Lawrence stood silent and cold in a petrifaction of anger.
The petrifaction of Karaism is illustrated by an event in European Turkey.
As for Rollin, he became, and remained for some time, a petrifaction of amazement.
petrifaction awaits all these glowing metaphors of early time.
Perhaps the process might be more aptly called one of petrifaction.
Something like a petrifaction of her wildest face was shown.
I know cases of petrifaction like that—and God preserve anyone that I love from it!
A petrifaction of a fish's head, for old United States coins.