Definitions for silts

silts silt

Spelling: [silt]
IPA: /sɪlt/

Silts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in silts (ilsst).

Definitions for silts

noun

  1. earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.

verb (used with object)

  1. to fill or choke up with silt.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become filled or choked up with silt.

Origin of silts

1400-50; late Middle English cylte gravel, perhaps orig. salty deposit; compare Old English unsylt unsalted, unseasoned, sylting seasoning, syltan to salt, season, Norwegian sylt salty swamp,

Examples for silts

The tides have gradually filled their shallow harbors with silt.

The subdead were coming, walking out of the silt formed fog.

Millions of tons of silt have been deposited in this great alluvial basin.

The quality of water eventually becomes a concern, as reservoirs drop and salt and silt become more concentrated.

The floor of the valley was silt, sand and gravel—they would find nothing there.

And all this silt is deposited in the flat delta below New Orleans.

There must be no halting of its contents, and no deposit of filth or silt at any point.

Five of them were found buried in the silt under the streets of Glasgow.

These methods have notable effect on silt and acid production.

The rock fragments—soil, gravel, and silt—carried by a glacier.

Word Value for silts
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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