Definitions for volcano

volcano vol·ca·no

Spelling: [vol-key-noh]
IPA: /vɒlˈkeɪ noʊ/

Volcano is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in volcano (aclnoov).

Definitions for volcano

noun

  1. a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals.
  2. a mountain or hill, usually having a cuplike crater at the summit, formed around such a vent from the ash and lava expelled through it.

Origin of volcano

1605-15; Italian Latin Volcānus, variant of Vulcānus Vulcan

Examples for volcano

A shower of red-hot stones warned him that he was near the volcano.

As before, the valley yawned like the living threat of a volcano in eruption.

Hard to see how you'd get a volcano to spit boulders just where you needed them to fall...

Had some thief stolen them and hidden here, only to be caught by the volcano?

When the volcano blew its top, thousands perished, immolated by fire, boiling magma, and ash.

The volcano's top had been stripped clean by the winds of countless years.

It ends with Godzilla lured away from Tokyo with a bird call and trapped in a volcano.

Did they ever watch a YouTube video of what a volcano actually looks like?

The witness started as though a volcano had burst at her feet.

Standing on the edge of the Burfell volcano, you realize what a fragile construct modern civilization is.

Word Value for volcano
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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