Skeleton is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SKELETON in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the supporting bone structure of a body
• an internal or external framework of bone, cartilage, or other rigid material supporting or containing the body of an animal or plant
• used in reference to a very thin or emaciated person or animal
• the remaining part of something after its life or usefulness is gone
• the supporting framework, basic structure, or essential part of something
• denoting the essential or minimum number of people, things, or parts necessary for something
• a small toboggan for one person, ridden head first while lying in a prone position
• a sport in which a competitor races down a frozen track on a skeleton sled
• The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
• The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
• A very thin or lean person.
• The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
• The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
• something reduced to its minimal form
• a scandal that is kept secret
• the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
• the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
• framework of bones inside a person's or animal's body
ADJECTIVE:
• Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
• reduced to a minimum
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the supporting or protective framework of a human or animal body
• framework of bones inside a person\'s or animal\'s body

Words related to SKELETON

hardparts15 ossature8 skeletal12 skeletally17 skeletonic16 skeletons13

Words that contain SKELETON

skeletons13 skeletonic16 exoskeleton22 skeletonise15 skeletonize24 cytoskeleton21 endoskeleton17 exoskeletons23 skeletonised17 skeletoniser16 skeletonises16 skeletonized26 skeletonizer25 skeletonizes25 cytoskeletons22 endoskeletons18 skeletonisers17 skeletonising18 skeletonizers26 skeletonizing27 chondroskeleton25

How to use SKELETON in a sentence

• She meant that Mother, my dear blessed mother, was the skeleton in their closet.
• Next I showed them the wreck, which was now only a bare skeleton of rotting woodwork, but still plainly discernible among the coral rocks.
• He perished miserably in a secret passage, behind an iron door, forgetting the key of the spring-clock, and years later his skeleton was discovered.
• Continuing his chant he constructed of the bones a crude likeness to an animal skeleton.
• Her arms and feet were uncovered, and of almost skeleton thinness.
• Jean knew the eight of them could give a pretty good account of the remains on the skeleton.
• The best built skeleton is repulsive till it is clothed with flesh, colour and beauty.
• All that it is necessary to know of the plot may be briefly told in a skeleton form.
• It was a steep, winding cut, the tree, halfway up its length, spreading skeleton arms against a sky clear as a blue diamond.
• He was reduced to a mere skeleton by the vice which he made no secret of, and was so weak that he could scarcely walk a rod.
• Although it had a framework of heavy timbers, yet the strong skeleton was but loosely covered with boards.
• If again found it may lead to the suspicion that it is the skeleton of a murdered man, and not that of a murderer.
• Kobuk had turned back without him and was bounding out of sight around Skeleton Rib.
• The night before our departure he came wandering into camp and presented such an awful appearance, simply a living skeleton of a once grand and powerful man.
• About this he built a skeleton tent of bits of dry soft wood from six to nine inches in length.
• Prose, in its naked quality, is to poetry what a skeleton is to a moving, flesh-and-spirit-endowed body.
• But all this, and were it ten times as much, is but the skeleton, the frame.
• In the end the dynamic skeleton, without losing its articulation, would be clothed again with its flesh.
• Beside some silver vases lay another skeleton, probably of a slave.
• Not a soul was to be seen, but on going upstairs he was terrified to see a human skeleton of immense size lying on the floor.
• Hence is man now but a shadow, a skeleton of original beauty.

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