Tortoise is valid Scrabble Word

Is tortoise a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is tortoise valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for TORTOISE in dictionary:

NOUN:

any reptile having the body enclosed in a bony shell
a slow-moving typically herbivorous land reptile of warm climates, enclosed in a scaly or leathery domed shell into which it can retract its head and thick legs.
a freshwater turtle.
slow-moving land reptile with a dome-shaped shell
Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
Same as Testudo, 2.
having a color like that of a tortoise\'s shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.
a tortoise-shell cat.
usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

any of an order of reptiles having the body enclosed in a bony shell

Words related to TORTOISE

galapago12 tortoises9

Words that contain TORTOISE

tortoises9 tortoiseshell16 tortoiseshells17

How to use TORTOISE in a sentence

A tortoise hangs in his needy shop, nor are stuffed alligators lacking.
So everyday I would clean the starback tortoise pit, the turkey pit, the chicken pits and later on the ratsnake pit, the chequered keel back pit and the monitor lizard pit.
The Tortoise then set himself to work at making a little hut of bamboo-posts, with a roof and walls of leaves.
Then the water ran out from their bodies until the lake rose again, and covered the Tortoise.
Human rights stood upon that contract as the elephant upon the tortoise, though the contract itself, like the tortoise, was apt to stand upon nothing at all.
Tortoise, seeing this, took his hoe, and cleared the path that led to the spring.
Very early the next day they were off again, and soon arrived at the river, where they were warmly welcomed by the tortoise.
What was the chief mistake made by the tortoise? CHAPTER VII When the tortoise in his turn did not come home, the deer, the crow and the mouse were very much concerned.
Soaring with him to a great height in the sky he then let him go, and the wretched Tortoise fell headlong and was dashed to pieces on a rock.
Drawings on the walls signified that this was the house of the Tortoise.

So the Ducks brought a strong little stick and took hold of the ends, while the Tortoise bit firmly on the middle.
It is difficult to extract any meaning out of the three first manifestations, when the god became in succession a fish, a boar, and a tortoise.
One day the Cogia, whilst labouring in the field, found a tortoise, and, seizing hold of it, tied a string round its neck and hung it to his spade.
We used to pick him up and drop him gently in the grass to watch him go out flat like a tortoise.
For the first week or ten days the horse would be far ahead but, like the fable of the hare and the tortoise, after a while the tortoise would pass the hare and get in first.
Hypothesis was piled on hypothesis, as in the old Oriental legend, where the world rested on the elephant and the elephant on the tortoise.
He withdrew it like a tortoise beneath its cover, with a cry that was only half of pain.
Once in a hundred thousand years a blind tortoise rises to the surface of the water.
He could tell the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise, the Crow and the Pitcher, and many others.
The tortoise had a cock by its side, and two dogs standing as guardians of the whole.
Among them I noticed a bust of Voltaire and an unusually lively tortoise, generally half-way out of a paper bag.
The enormous flatboat, that Suzanne had likened to a giant tortoise, darted now like an arrow, dragged by the current.
When this fish came to a tortoise, it clung so close to the under shell of the tortoise, that the men drew up one of an hundred weight or more into their canoe.
Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise brought a salad with him in a string bag.
That was a tortoise shell, of an oval shape, lined with blue satin, and this was a tortoise shell, oval shaped, and lined with blue satin.

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