Cornices is valid Scrabble Word

Is cornices a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is cornices valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for CORNICES in dictionary:

VERB:

CORNICE, to decorate with a moulding

NOUN:

an ornamental moulding round the wall of a room just below the ceiling.
a horizontal moulded projection crowning a building or structure, especially the uppermost member of the entablature of an order, surmounting the frieze.
an overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a mountain precipice.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to decorate with a molding

Words related to CORNICES

cornice11 corniced13 cornicing14

How to use CORNICES in a sentence

In the midst of this crushed magnificence stood several lofty portals and arches, pedestals of gigantic columns and broken steps and marble cornices, heaped in desolate confusion.
The walls inclosing the fig-orchards near the villages contain many stones with Greek inscriptions, and fragments of cornices.
The graceful columns and the narrow cornices are also covered, above and below, with jasper, agate, etc.
The ceiling and cornices are ornamented with aquatic plants and flowers.
Along the cornices were busts of Plato, Socrates, and Newton.
The windows of the lower story were sheltered under lofty, projecting granite cornices.
A broad-nibbed pen was used almost invariably in making architectural designs of cornices, pilasters, windows, also in plans for military engineering.
Fourteen columns, six feet high, support beautiful arches, and the cornices are wrought in flowers.
Many fragments of molded plaster cornices have also been excavated.
They are without cornices, battlements of any sort, or, indeed, any relief to the circular masonry.

At the pueblo of Acoma a similar extensive use of projecting cornices is met with, particularly on the third story walls.
Next came a salon, with three windows on the street, in white and red, with cornices of an elegant design which had nothing gaudy about them.
The two youths climbing along the cornices, green and slippery from the rain, would mount to quite the upper parts of the building.
She has decorated cornices, with flowers in relief, as well as some vases that are very beautiful.
It is steadily advancing to completion, having been raised from beneath the cornices during my visit.
Above the cornices the marble has been covered with thin glass, which gives it a peculiar appearance of polish.
In 1846 it consisted of three stories divided by cornices of stepped brickwork.
They made the room feel cold, in spite of the heavy red damask curtains and great gilt cornices.
The fortifications against heaven, thus prepared, cost, in the shape of damask, cord, tassels, shades, laces, and cornices, about two hundred dollars per window.

Similar words containing RNICE without suffix s and without prefix co

cornice11 corniced13 fornices13 overnice13 overnicely18 overniceness17 underniceness16 overnicenesses19 undernicenesses18

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