Definitions for rictuses

rictuses ric·tus

Spelling: [rik-tuh s]
IPA: /ˈrɪk təs/

Rictuses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 329 anagrams from letters in rictuses (ceirsstu).

Definitions for rictuses

noun

  1. the gape of the mouth of a bird.
  2. the gaping or opening of the mouth.
  3. the gape of the mouth of a bird.
  4. the gaping or opening of the mouth.

Origin of rictuses

1750-60; Latin: wide-open mouth, equivalent to rig-, variant stem of ringī to open the mouth wide + -tus suffix of v. action.

Examples for rictuses

The lovely lips twisted into a rictus sneer, frightening on that smooth young face, until she got them under control.

He only stood and smiled—that awful smile which expressed more anguish than any rictus of pain.

rictus ampli, ad mandibul superioris basin vibrissis rigidis armati.

His gold tooth, gleaming in the light, made his rictus of passion more venomous, more malevolent still.

rictus, rik′tus, n. the gape of the bill: the throat of the calyx.

Nor can the rictus caninus or the tortura oris have been other than spasms or oontractures of the face.

He lay back on the pillows again, with a smile that was twisted into a rictus of agony as a twinge wrung the injured limb.

Then his mouth twisted in a rictus of dreadful mirth, so wrung was he with pain, yet so overcome by what he had seen.

The sensation of gaiety due to the sudden shock caused by the rictus of Gwynplaine was evidently not intended by Ursus.

In the garnature of the rictus there is also an essential difference.

He lay back on the pillows again, with a smile that was twisted into a rictus of agony as a twinge wrung the injured limb.

Nor can the rictus caninus or the tortura oris have been other than spasms or oontractures of the face.

In the garnature of the rictus there is also an essential difference.

His gold tooth, gleaming in the light, made his rictus of passion more venomous, more malevolent still.

The lovely lips twisted into a rictus sneer, frightening on that smooth young face, until she got them under control.

Then his mouth twisted in a rictus of dreadful mirth, so wrung was he with pain, yet so overcome by what he had seen.

rictus ampli, ad mandibul superioris basin vibrissis rigidis armati.

rictus, rik′tus, n. the gape of the bill: the throat of the calyx.

The sensation of gaiety due to the sudden shock caused by the rictus of Gwynplaine was evidently not intended by Ursus.

He only stood and smiled—that awful smile which expressed more anguish than any rictus of pain.

Word Value for rictuses
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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