onlap

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5

Definition of onlap

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The phenomenon of successively younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks.
    “Displacement on F3 was followed by continued accumulation and onlap of the fine-grained sands of unit 3 on the footwall and development of soil Qb2.”
See all 2 definitions

noun

  1. The phenomenon of successively younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks.
    “Displacement on F3 was followed by continued accumulation and onlap of the fine-grained sands of unit 3 on the footwall and development of soil Qb2.”

verb

  1. To form an onlap.
    “Elsewhere, many of the youngest volcanic plains units onlap tesserae at crustal plateau boundaries.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From on + lap.

Find your best play with onlap

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes onlap, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.