earthstorm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extremely powerful earthquake; a storm involving earth or rock blowing through the air.
Example Sentences
- "This earthquake was an earthstorm. Hills were waves, and houses cast adrift were wrecked on them."
- "There is an earthstorm, disks of rock careering skyward, buffeting the train."
- "It had come from the west, the shock wave from some almighty earthstorm in lost America, rolling clear across the Atlantic before breaking over Thursday Island. It had smashed down buildings, and sunk the ships whose dead masts could still be seen jutting sadly from the water in the harbor."