Glacis is valid Scrabble Word

Is glacis a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for GLACIS in dictionary:

NOUN:

a slope
a sloping piece of armour plate protecting part of a vehicle.
slight incline
A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).
a bank sloping down from a fort which exposes attackers to the defenders' missiles.

Words related to GLACIS

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Words that contain GLACIS

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How to use GLACIS in a sentence

They have managed to establish a battery of a few guns on a wooded eminence, at the foot of the glacis of Fort.
Even Uncle Toby troubled himself very little about the French grenadiers who fell on the glacis of Namur.
These works are also employed as advanced works, and placed entirely in front of the glacis.
During the whole course of this wall, or glacis, it is covered with trees, among which are many large cotton trees, two or three feet in diameter.
Medley handed him the ladder and rod, and followed him with two riflemen, the other four remaining on the crest of the glacis to cover their retreat.
No sooner were the front ranks seen by the rebels than a storm of bullets met them from every side, and officers and men fell thick on the crest of the glacis.
I was treading now upon a smooth slope, like the glacis of a fortress.
The Versailles troops have made good their communications from Montrouge to Issy, and have established batteries on the glacis before Fort Vanves.
On the glacis I saw the dead and decomposed body of a man not in uniform.
By means of mines artfully disposed and well constructed, the fortifications were reduced to a heap of rubbish, the glacis was levelled, and the ditches were filled.

On the 19th the sap reached the crest of the glacis, and on the 21st the engineer officer in charge announced that there were two practicable breaches.
The more broken and precipitous the glacis, the more the ground leading up to the objective is dead.
Beyond the moat, a glacis sloped down to another ditch.
That done, of course we could, on a dark night, cross the glacis and swim the outer moat.
It was situated on the glacis, in a part of the city where Beethoven had lived much of the time since coming to Vienna.
The storm was of unusual severity, covering the glacis with snow and sleet.
Its bastions, ramparts, and glacis are a marvel of engineering.

Similar words containing GLACI without suffix s

glacial10 glacier10 glacials11 glaciate11 glaciers11 glacises11 englacial12 glacially15 glaciated13 glaciates12 glaciered13 glacialist13 glaciating14 glaciation13 glaciology17 preglacial15 subglacial15 deglaciated16 englacially17 glacialists14 glaciations14 glaciologic17 periglacial16 postglacial16 unglaciated15 deglaciation16 glaciologies16 glaciologist16 interglacial15 subglacially20 superglacial17 deglaciations17 glaciological19 glaciologists17 interglacials16

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