Isthmus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ISTHMUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a strip of land connecting two larger land masses
• a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.
• a narrow organ, passage, or piece of tissue connecting two larger parts.
• narrow strip of land connecting two areas of land
• A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
• a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas
• a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure

Words related to ISTHMUS

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Words that contain ISTHMUS

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How to use ISTHMUS in a sentence

• The rifles were scarcely reloaded when the deep baying of the hounds was heard, and two more deer came crashing across the isthmus where we were stationed.
• One heard the languid rollers break upon the beach and the measured crash of surges on the reefs across the isthmus.
• One fine day in 1883 there was a great shower of ashes, and, when the clouds had rolled away, two peaks were seen where only one had been, separated by a sandy isthmus.
• The fatherland of the English race is the isthmus in the northern part of Germany which we now call Schleswig.
• I also recommend similar legislation for the security of any other route across the Isthmus in which we may acquire an interest by treaty.
• The transit by land over this narrow isthmus occupies nearly the same position.
• The town of the same name lies in the midst of a small plain, which forms the half of an isthmus.
• Here I had to leave the ship and cross the Isthmus, three English miles broad.
• Impelled by these considerations, the United States took steps at an early day to assure suitable means of commercial transit by canal railway, or otherwise across this isthmus.
• In due time he was landed at Panama, whence he made his way across the isthmus, actually reaching Philadelphia in less than five months after he was driven off the Reef.
• What Isthmus joins South America to North America? A.
• We had no sooner got the isthmus up out of the water than figures began to move across it.
• Some more soldiers appeared on the mainland and began to build a fort on their side, near the isthmus.
• Edward occupied this isthmus with his best troops, and thus cut off all prospect of escape by land.
• Paterson wished his fellow-countrymen to found a colony in the Isthmus of Panama, and to attract thither the whole trade of North and South America.
• When this exciting news reached the East, a mighty rush began to California, over the trails, across the Isthmus of Panama, and around Cape Horn.
• Let us extend our views to what may be the population of the two continents of North and South America, supposing them divided at the narrowest part of the isthmus of Panama.
• To Panama was but a short run and the twenty-five dollars in gold that he had to pay for his trip across the isthmus from there to Aspinwall, left him almost penniless.
• As later buccaneers have noted, the upper land of the isthmus is wooded with vast trees, whose branches shut out the sun.
• The tree seems to have been a place of much resort among that people, as it lay in their paths across the isthmus, and towards the west.
• Three scoundrels came before him, saying that they knew the road across the isthmus, and that they would act as guides if such action were made profitable.
• The Isthmus of Portland was at this period singularly sharp and rugged.
• The Isthmus of Corinth is also apparently the same at present as it had been two or three thousand years ago.
• CHAPTER XI JOE ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO At the isthmus they exchanged steamers, crossing the narrow neck of land on the backs of mules.
• After long wanderings he found himself on a high mountain in the center of the Isthmus of Panama.
• Across the little isthmus which connected this peninsula with the mainland they built a strong fence, or stockade, to keep the Indians away from their huts.
• Panama is a town of Colombo, where they are trying to make an isthmus.
• CORINTHUS, a city of Achaia, on the south part of the isthmus which joins Peloponnesus to the continent.
• Monsieur Letronne conjectures that he only imitated the plan, which is attributed to Periander, of having designed to cut through the isthmus of Corinth.
• The distance across the isthmus to the Golden Horn, or harbour, is about four miles, and the walls are uninterrupted by the before-mentioned gates.

Similar words containing ISTHMU without suffix s

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