Tufa is valid Scrabble Word

Is tufa a scrabble word?
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4 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for TUFA in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Italian) a rock made of fine volcanic detritus, also CALCTUFA, TOPH, TOPHE
a porous rock composed of calcium carbonate and formed by precipitation from water, e.g. around mineral springs.
porous rock formed as a deposit from springs
a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime
hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a porous limestone
A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.
A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria.

Words related to TUFA

calctufa15 calctuff18 tufaceous14 tufas8

Words that contain TUFA

tufas8 calctufa15 calctufas16 tufaceous14

How to use TUFA in a sentence

The tufa is generally found to form the gently-sloping plains that surround these mountains, and has in all probability been ejected from them.
The rocks in the vicinity are all tufa, and some of the springs break out close to the cold water of the lake.
In such cases the tufa may have been broken down into the condition of sand for removal.
The Merinids took to rubble and a soft tufa, and the Cherifian dynasties built in clay like the Spaniards in South America.
Jake Smith, for the first time on this trip, selected at this large lake a curious specimen of tufa.
The piano or plain of Sorrento terminates, on the side of the bay, in perpendicular cliffs of tufa, that vary from one to near two hundred feet in height.
These ashes had been converted by time into a soft, or friable rock, composing a stone that is called tufa.
These stones came from Rancocus Island, where they were found in inexhaustible quantities, partaking of the character of tufa.
San Estevan is a pretty village, near the summit of some low gray hills of tufa, behind which rises a background of higher hills of the same material.
From here we descended, over a long slope of gray tufa, to a pretty stream flowing through black basalt.

Back of all, rise hills of tufa, such as we had just traversed.
Ascending the slope, we entered a long narrow passage about six feet wide and about fourteen feet deep cut through the tufa rock.
In Rome, the chief refuge of the Christians was in the Catacombs, or quarries of tufa, from which the city was chiefly built, and which were hollowed out in long galleries.
It may have been formed by baking of the tufa, which in this country seems always to have been poured out with water after volcanic action.
Its bottom was covered with fine, loose sand, a strange circumstance in a country composed of tufa and volcanic rock.
Then he reined his pony to a bare spot on the grass-dotted tufa, and again dismounted.
Farther on he again swung from the trail to the tufa, never slackening pace, and rode across the broken ground for several miles.
Ten shafts lined with slabs of tufa which were there found may have been the approaches to tombs or may have served as wells.
Fortunately, this cone inclined to the north, and had fallen upon the plain of sand and tufa stretching between the volcano and the sea.
Where formerly sprang up that charming verdure, the soil was now nothing but a savage mass of volcanic tufa.
The torrent flowed along the surface of the hardened tufa, and destroyed the few meager skeletons of trees which had withstood the first eruption.
When he had possessed himself of Milan, he sent these renegades and certain nobles with their men from his own army, apparently under the leadership of Tufa, to besiege Ravenna.
Suddenly Tufa deserted his new master, was joined by Odoacer, who came to Faventia, and certain of the Ostrogothic nobles, if not all of them, were slaughtered.
From the temple itself we turn now to a brief discussion of a space on the tufa wall which helps to face the cave on the west.
The quarries down toward Gallicano supplied tufa of the same texture, but the quarries are too small to have supplied much.
Herculaneum was buried with lava, or rather with tufa, and it is so very hard that the expense of uncovering of only a small part of that city has been very great.
We have before us the narrow lanes, paved with tufa, in which Roman wagon wheels have worn deep ruts.

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