Precipices is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRECIPICES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PRECIPICE, a high vertical or nearly vertical cliff or rock face
• a very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a very steep or overhanging place

Words related to PRECIPICES

precipice17

How to use PRECIPICES in a sentence

• At first sight, they seem pictures of pure bloodless desolation, miniature arctic seas, bound in perpetual ice and snow, and overshadowed by harsh, gloomy, crumbling precipices.
• He could climb the highest hills without fatigue, and walk on the brink of frightful precipices without fear.
• They are unlike the Highlands, however, in one respect, that their sides are covered with large loose blocks detached from the main precipices.
• There are permanent chains and things where there used to be polished precipices.
• The road to Hofgastein, hewn out of the rocks, skirting the precipices, winds and twists around the mountain slopes.
• He literally walked the dizzy edge of precipices that dropped over the edge of the world.
• He lost his way, was forced to abandon his horse among impassable precipices, and finally found his rifle useless owing to the powder having become soaked.
• The precipices between the Corbiere and the bay of St.
• In another direction, amid the rugged precipices, Mr.
• The road winds between precipices of black rock, above which the thick foliage shuts out the brightness of day and gives a sombre hue to the scene.
• It was as dark as earthly starlight throughout its length, while the ghastly green day lay along the upper edge of its precipices.
• The gorge between these precipices ran east and west and was full of the morning sunlight, which lit to the westward the mass of fallen mountain that closed the descending gorge.
• It is astonishing, as well as ludicrous, to see them climb rocks, and tumble or rather roll down precipices.
• Lakes and rivers, precipices and gorges, waterfalls and glaciers and snowy mountains were our daily repast.
• From the end of the hill there was a magnificent view of the great precipices in Basutoland, but hardly a Boer could be seen.
• Although no echoes, properly speaking, were possible, these precipices caught stray notes that trooped in from the further sandy reaches.
• It is the beginning of the Apennine which constitutes the state of Genoa, the mountains there generally falling down in barren, naked precipices into the sea.
• The track we followed was fairly good, but led along several dangerous precipices, over which two burros rolled and were killed.
• The neck of the gorge was narrow, and for a hundred yards on either side there were steep precipices down which rocks could be tumbled on fleeing men.
• Above it towered a succession of rugged precipices and snowy mountain sides.
• Papallacta is a village of thirty dwellings, situated in a deep valley on the north slope of Antisana, nearly surrounded by an amphitheatre of sandstone and basaltic precipices.
• This rendered it necessary for the French to establish guards on the line of precipices between Quebec and Cap-Rouge.
• In some places we had to scramble down steep precipices where the water fell, but we always managed it, and every time we did that, we knew we were saving space.
• Sometimes we made tolerable progress, at other times we had to use the greatest caution to escape falling over the precipices which we had now on one side, now on the other.
• There are mountains indeed, precipices and deeps, to which those of the earth are pigmy.
• Yet this obstruction rendered it quite impossible for the boats to pass, nor could they be carried across the precipices and deep ravines, by which the country was intersected.
• On the southeastern quarter the peak drops by a series of great precipices straight into the sea.
• The creek, walled in on all sides by precipices higher than its width, was minute by minute becoming more overshadowed by evening.
• The rocky coasts as a rule rise up steeply from the ocean, standing out in many places in bold bluffs and high precipices.
• They accordingly marched in that direction, laying the cable as they went, past precipices and over mountain gorges.

Similar words containing CIPICE without suffix s and without prefix pre

precipice17 precipiced19

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