Precipitous is valid Scrabble Word

Is precipitous a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for PRECIPITOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

steep, sudden
dangerously high or steep
(of a change to a worse situation or condition) sudden and dramatic
(of an action) done suddenly and without careful consideration
Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
Headlong; as, precipitous fall.
Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts.
done with very great haste and without due deliberation
extremely steep

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

precipitate

Words related to PRECIPITOUS

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Words that contain PRECIPITOUS

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How to use PRECIPITOUS in a sentence

As it flowed at the foot of two precipitous mountains the disposition of the localities did not admit of turning it aside and conducting it into lower channels.
A wooded amphitheatre, surrounded on three sides by precipitous cliffs of naked granite, sloped gently toward the crest of another precipice that overlooked the valley.
With these low cliffs, in strongest contrast to the stately and precipitous southern point of St.
For on three the low precipitous cliffs overhung the tumbling water.
There was no climbing down those precipitous rocks.
The prevailing thought seemed to be to postpone any attempt to elect a president, it being the feeling that it was too precipitous.
On the hill overlooking the Stewart ranch we saw quite a commotion, a cloud of dust raising and pointing back towards a deep, rocky, precipitous canyon.
The Prebisehthor is a natural arch, ninety feet high, in a wall of rock which projects at right angles from the precipitous side of the mountain.
It crowned the precipitous edge of the wooded glen, itself half-buried among the wild forest that covered that long and solitary range.
The precipitous wall of the Marlborough Downs, with several lovely and little-known villages at its foot, is a remarkable feature of the landscape.

On the eastern side the rock needs no defense beyond its own precipitous cliffs, and in all other directions it has been rendered practically impregnable.
They were eight to ten feet deep, twenty or thirty feet wide, and with elevated, precipitous banks.
Before me the glen narrowed into a rocky chasm, over which the adventurous trees that clung to the precipitous hillsides spread a dense roof of foliage.
The guide had put him on to the path for Engelberg, and left him to make his way along the precipitous slopes of the Pfaffenwand.
Cadiz stands on a precipitous rock at the end of a low and narrow neck of land, some five miles in length, running parallel to the coast.
At daybreak they halted in the depths of another tremendous gorge with precipitous sides.
The scenery is rugged and pretty, the hill-sides generally steep, sometimes precipitous.
These spurs are steep, bare and stony, and in places, precipitous, and are separated from one another by narrow valleys.
Back of her loomed the precipitous wall of the cliff.
On each shore rose precipitous cliffs, which bewildered the eyes and chilled the heart of man.
The banks were sloping in places, and rather inclined to be precipitous in others, but at no place more than half a dozen feet in height.
Hills which we should call mountains are frequently planted with trees as far up as the soil will lie upon the precipitous sides.
All sides except one were too precipitous for ascent, and even this one could not be climbed without the assistance of a sapling or two.
He descended into a ravine which became precipitous.
The precipitous sides obliged them often to make a circuitous route, and rendered it necessary to form with their hands a track, by which the camels might ascend.
Once or twice the wind came with a power that showed how necessary it is to be cautious on a water that is bounded by so many precipitous rocks.
The trail was a mass of tangled underbrush and fallen logs and led straight up a precipitous mountain through a veritable jungle of dwarf bamboo.
One looks towards the west across a remarkably deep ravine with precipitous sides that leads out of Newton Dale towards the old coach road upon which the lonely hostelry stands.
On precipitous ground, when the coffee is planted, small ridges should be raised between the rows, to prevent the rich earth from washing down in the heavy rains.
Clay slate appears to be here the most common rock, and forms in many places the very precipitous banks of the river.
From our very feet a precipitous mud slope falls away for half a mile or more till it reaches the level.

Similar words containing CIPITOU without suffix s and without prefix pre

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