Splinter is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 435 anagrams from letters in splinter (eilnprst).
1350-1400; Middle English Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; cf. splint
A tornado does not just topple trees, it tears off their branches and twists their trunks until they splinter.
His body seemed to break and splinter, and he sprawled forward on the sand.
One day Falk came upon a man gnawing a splinter of pine wood.
DS: I got a splinter of wood through my ear as some doors were exploding.
Would the teeth of a crocodile not splinter under that word?
Likewise, there have been reports of violence stemming from Southern splinter groups as well.
The second lesson is that progressive movements all too often splinter among themselves, rather than uniting around common values.
This faction of the opposition is itself fractured into dozens of splinter groups.
It turned out that a splinter of iron wire had penetrated the core.
But splinter added a few words of his own and they became quieter.