Tenuous is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 125 anagrams from letters in tenuous (enostuu).
First recorded in 1590-1600; tenu(ity) + -ous
Though there are many claims that implicate it in improved brain function, the evidence in support of this finding is tenuous.
These particles are for the most part composed of tenuous gases.
He was clean-shaven, too, and in the English habit he appeared thin and tenuous.
And the tenuous message which passed between them then astounded Shann.
Perhaps his reluctance stems from the fact that he has only tenuous connections to Hungary these days.
Again he seemed almost invisible; then gigantic and tenuous.
The sky was blue, naked except for a tracing of tenuous clouds.
Her hold on her position at the hospital—and thus, her survival—is tenuous and she knows it.
Security in the town appeared to be tenuous at best, though, with continued reports of potential suicide bombers.
The relationship between law and ethics, from Selma to Ferguson, is tenuous, and often contentious.