Recurve is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 61 anagrams from letters in recurve (ceerruv).
1590-1600; Latin recurvāre, equivalent to re- re- + curvāre to curve
It must be free of any appendages abutting upon the outside of the recurve at a right angle.
This pattern has a recurve and a separate delta, but it still lacks the ridge count necessary to make it a loop.
The abutment is at right angles and therefore spoils the recurve.
If no second recurve is present, an obstruction at right angles to the inner line of flow is acceptable in lieu of it.
The second recurve, however, need not be a continuation of—or even connected with—the first.
An appendage at that point is considered to spoil the recurve or obstruction.
An appendage connected at that point is considered to spoil the recurve on that side.
These tented arches have two of the loop characteristics, recurve and delta, but lack the third, the ridge count.
Placing the delta upon the recurve would spoil that recurve.
There are also the elements of the type approaching a loop, as it has a delta and ridge count but lacks a recurve.