Surcease is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 259 anagrams from letters in surcease (aceerssu).
1400-50; sur-1 + cease; replacing late Middle English sursesen (v.) Middle French sursis (past participle of surseoir) Latin super
All he wanted now was sleep, the surcease of a few hours of oblivion.
There was no surcease, however, in the constant hail which fell upon the town.
Certainly there was some surcease in going fast and having nothing to do.
She made no effort to rebel; she lay as though an agony had come from which no surcease can be.
What blew up the Art, will in its own surcease terminate its success.
I will leave you, laddie, to seek in slumber a surcease from martyrdom.
But about them there was no sign of reluctance or of surcease.
He could find no surcease only in the oft-repeated exclamation of reproach.
They knew no surcease from labor, but toiled on without murmur or complaint.
What overflattered child ever asked for a surcease of flattery?