Detritus is valid Scrabble Word

Is detritus a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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8 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for DETRITUS in dictionary:

NOUN:

particles of rock
waste or debris of any kind
gravel, sand, silt, or other material produced by erosion.
organic matter produced by the decomposition of organisms.
loose mass of stones and silt worn away from rocks
A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.
the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks

Words related to DETRITUS

detrital9 detritus9

How to use DETRITUS in a sentence

Even in the lower regions, where they have been closed for many a century, their rocky orbits are still discernible, filled in with the detritus of flood and avalanche.
Specimens occur here and there considerably below this limit, in basins specially protected from inwashing detritus, or exceptional in size.
Here and there yellowish streaks appear upon the gray sand, formed by the detritus of submarine shells.
The Silver Cloud sped through the detritus and passed the far boundary of warships.
In that time it has made, by reason of the detritus brought down by the Nile, a distinctly-marked encroachment on the Mediterranean.
It is still engaged in filling up the Bay of Bengal on one side by the detritus of the Ganges, and the Arabian Sea on the other by the sand-banks of the Indus.
Whence comes the mud? The answer is, Mainly from the detritus of the mountains.
For there is much detritus and much first-rate soil even on hills not covered by glaciers.
The barest standing-room was afforded by a patch of shingle and detritus.
These are the fracture and detritus of the schistus, while the strata were deposited upon the broken ends of the schistus at the bottom of the sea.

This stream, assisted by the Peace, is fast filling up with detritus the western portion of Lake Athabasca.
In this instance, the water flowed along the edge of the ice and cut out a shelf on the hill slopes near Hutton Buscel, and the detritus was carried to the front of the glacier.

Similar words containing TRITU without suffix s and without prefix de

triturate9 triturable12 triturated11 triturates10 triturator10 triturating12 trituration11 triturators11 contriturate14 trituberculy19 triturations12 contriturated16 contriturates15 tritubercular17 contriturating17 trituberculate18 trituberculies18 trituberculism20 trituberculisms21

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