Talus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TALUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a slope formed by an accumulation of rock debris
• a bone of the foot
• the large bone in the ankle, which articulates with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneus and navicular bone of the foot.
• a sloping mass of rock fragments at the foot of a cliff.
• the sloping side of an earthwork, or of a wall that tapers to the top.
• bone of the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint
• The astragalus.
• A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes.
• A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
• A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
• a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
• the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint

Words related to TALUS

anklebone15 tali4 taluses7

Words that contain TALUS

taluses7 tantalus8 tantaluses10

How to use TALUS in a sentence

• The roadway at its base is constructed across the talus, and is emphatically a glass road.
• The only things in them equal to the former, are the account of Talus, the Iron Man, and the delightful episode of Pastorella.
• He went like a bronze Talus, made simply to find, to carry home.
• There he permitted the rubble to slide with a mixture of earth, like a natural displacement, into the talus, of a similar nature, at the base of the cliff.
• To our left was a hundred-foot drop to the talus that sloped down to the canon.
• The only difficulty was that between ourselves and that point of talus extended a piece of sheer wall.
• Hephaistos the Fire King made him, in his forge in AEtna beneath the earth, and called him Talus, and gave him to Minos for a servant, to guard the coast of Crete.
• The plateaus of Tusayan are generally diversified by canyons and buttes, whose precipitous sides break down into long ranges of rocky talus and sandy foothills.
• From the same seam many slabs of nearly equal size and symmetrical form have fallen out and now lie scattered about on the talus below.
• At its mouth the walls of Canyon de Chelly are but 20 to 30 feet high, descending vertically to a wide bed of loose white sand, and absolutely free from talus or debris.
• At the point where Monument canyon comes in, 13 miles above the mouth of De Chelly, the walls reach a height of over 800 feet, about one-third of which consists of talus.
• The talus, where there is any, is slight and consists of massive sandstone of the same character as the walls, but much rounded by atmospheric erosion.
• Ten miles up the talus has become a prominent feature.
• It is situated in a cove in a jutting point of rock, forming part of the talus slope, and is about 20 feet above the bottom, which it overlooks.
• Access to the upper ledge from the top of the talus is exceedingly difficult, requiring a climb over almost vertical rock for 40 feet.
• It is situated in a shallow cove at the head of the talus, 200 or 300 feet above the bottom, and is of comparatively easy access.
• It is situated on the top of the talus, against the cliff, and commands a fine outlook over the cultivable lands in the cove below it and on the canyon bottom proper.
• There is no ledge here, and the walls were built on loose debris of rocks and talus.
• It is situated in a shallow cove at the top of the talus and overlooks an extensive area of fine bottom land below it.
• There is a high slope of talus here, the top of which is flat and of considerable area.
• The plan shows at least eight rooms stretched along the cliff at the top of the talus.
• It occurs at the point marked 45 on the map, and occupies a small flat area almost on top of the talus 300 feet or more above the stream bed.
• After an hour the fog began to thin and the men sent the hounds toward a talus slope at the base of the highest peak.
• The Panamints towered a wrinkled red grisly mass, broken by rough canyons, with long declines of talus like brown glaciers.
• The first of them had the name of Solon, the second Chilon, the third Periander, the fourth Talus, the fifth Cleobulus, the sixth Bias, the seventh Pittacus.

Similar words containing TALU without suffix s

taluk9 taluka10 taluks10 talukas11 taluses7 crotalum12 talukdar13 tantalum10 tantalus8 talukdars14 tantalums11 tantaluses10

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