Definitions for screes

screes scree

Spelling: [skree]
IPA: /skri/

Screes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in screes (ceerss).

Definitions for screes

noun

  1. a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.

Origin of screes

First recorded in 1775-85, scree is from the Old Norse word skritha landslide

Examples for screes

What followed in that hurly-burly—that mad scramble through brake and thicket, down crag and scree—is impossible to tell.

What followed in that hurly-burly—that mad scramble through brake and thicket, down crag and scree—cannot be written.

Outside the lower end of each large transverse glen there is a scree of sedimentary matter.

It is too steep for turf; it is grey with marl, and patchy where scree of flint and chalk has run and found a lodgment.

They walked down slowly, him leaning on her arm like an old man, steps faltering in the scree on the slope.

They set off and Festing noticed Helen's confidence on the scree.

It may, however, be recognised by its liberal output of scree.

On examining the other side there was no trace of moraine; there was scree in places, but a great deal of the tuff was uncovered.

scree: the dbris of decaying rocks, forming a talus on the lower parts of a mountain.

Then we buried it deep under the big pile of scree on my hill.

Word Value for screes
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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