Skuas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 38 anagrams from letters in skuas (akssu).
1670-80; Faeroese skū(g)vur; cognate with Old Norse skūfr tassel, tuft, also skua (in poetry), akin to shove1
His special dish was penguins and skua gulls in cream sauce.
skua gulls mysteriously appeared, snow petrels hovered along the rocky ridges and odd seals landed on the wind-raked harbour ice.
Attached to each rookery was a pair of skua gulls, who swooped down and quickly flew off with any eggs left for a moment untended.
Masses of Adelie penguins and chicks constituted the main population, and skua gulls with eggs were also observed.
Giant petrels and skua gulls swarmed in flocks round the seals' and penguins' carcases.
From the promontory came a cry: abrupt, strident—the hunger-note of a skua.
Few birds are so courageous in defence of their nests as the skua.
More nimble than he, the skua evaded the blow, and caught him by the neck.
The flight of the skua is stronger and more rapid than that of any other Gull.
But in that same instant the long beak of the skua caught it by the head.
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