Stalactite is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 441 anagrams from letters in stalactite (aaceilsttt).
1670-80; New Latin stalactites Greek stalakt(ós) dripping (stalag-, stem of stalássein to drip + -tos verbid suffix) + New Latin -ites -ite1
The other must be the tube that leads to the stalactite cave, said Mrs. Vernon.
I will also exchange minerals for stalagmites, and a trilobite for a stalactite.
stalactite work is employed in the pendentive of the smaller apses and in the capitals of the columns carrying the pointed arches.
Other pellets are attached, until this pillar, like a stalactite in a cave, is completed.
The vestibule is covered by a dome with stalactite pendentives, and is perhaps the most complete and perfect example in Cairo.
Then, there was a sharp, clinking sound, as if the brittle point of a stalactite had been broken off and had fallen to the ground.
It will be seen that, at one place, the stalactite has united with the stalagmite below.
This is evident from the stalactite formation which remains on it.
A stalactite grotto on the island of Antiparos in the Aegean Sea.
Then we arrived at a hall called dragons room, from a stalactite, which is said to have the form of a dragon.
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