Crossword-Solution: SCALY 5 letters, 56 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Scaly	a.	Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
Scaly	a.	Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
Scaly	a.	Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
Scaly	a.	Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SCALY	anagram	CLAYS

We have 56 clues for the answer “SCALY”

Clue	Answers
Like serpent skin	1 answer
Like a reptile's skin	1 answer
Like a snake's skin	1 answer
Like a typical fish	1 answer
Like an alligator's skin	1 answer
Like lizard skin	1 answer
Like lizards	1 answer
Like lizards and fish	1 answer
Like most fish	1 answer
Like pangolins	1 answer
Like pangolins and armadillos	1 answer
Like perch skin	1 answer
Like reptiles	1 answer
Like salmon	1 answer
Like a skink's skin	1 answer
Like snakes	1 answer
Like snakes and lizards	1 answer
Like snakes but not worms	1 answer
Like snakeskin	1 answer
Like the skin of fish and reptiles	1 answer
Like the skin of most fish	1 answer
Like uncleaned fish	1 answer
Reptilian adjective	1 answer
Reptilian, in a way	1 answer
Squamate	1 answer
Totally flaking?	1 answer
___ anteater, a pangolin.	1 answer
Like a pangolin's skin	1 answer
Covered in rough skin like a reptile	1 answer
Cleaving off in flakes.	1 answer
Dragonlike, in a way	1 answer
Covered in reptilian skin, perhaps	1 answer
Like a Lizard Brightly-colored	1 answer
Like a bass or a boa	1 answer
Like a dragon's skin	1 answer
Like a lizard's back	1 answer
Like a lizard's skin	1 answer
Like a pangolin	1 answer
Like a crocodile's skin	1 answer
Lizard-like	2 answers
like a dragon	2 answers
Like a fish.	2 answers
Like some anteaters	2 answers
reptilian	2 answers
Squamous	2 answers
Like dishpan hands	2 answers
laminar	3 answers
Like fish	3 answers
like a lizard	3 answers
like an armadillo	4 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ATERE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SCALY (5)

Before the Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem’d Woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fould Voluminous and vast, a Serpent arm’d With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing bark’d With wide _Cerberean_ mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb’d thir noyse, into her woomb, And kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d Within unseen.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Then he went to Chartres, and examined its scaly spires and quaint carving then he idled about Coutances.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995

Then that vile worm that in Calabrian glades Uprears his breast, and wreathes a scaly back, His length of belly pied with mighty spots- While from their founts gush any streams, while yet With showers of Spring and rainy south-winds earth Is moistened, lo! he haunts the pools, and here Housed in the banks, with fish and chattering frogs Crams the black void of his insatiate maw.

The Georgics Virgil 2008

Unlike the common snapping turtle, to which the name is sometimes erroneously applied, it has a scaly head and many small scales beneath the tail.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with SCALY (3)

He stared at her neck. Realization pulsed. He was looking at the bite he had given her. A hard length was growing against her hip. “So, is that your long, scaly, reptilian tail, or are you just happy to see me?” No, she did not just say that. Did she?

Thea Harrison Dragon Bound

Ever since my famous battle with Python, I've had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. (Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!)

Rick Riordan The Dark Prophecy

Get me in here. Get me in here now!" I order. I have to get out of the swamp before it happens again. But it does. I feel it before I see it. Dozens of thick, razor-sharp needles pierce my right leg, sinking into my skin. It hurts like nothing I've felt before, and a strangled scream of pain escapes me. Babette whips her head around, the motor forgotten. "Rylan! What is it!""Get me out! GET ME OUT!" I scream. Fearfully, I look over my shoulder, but seconds later I wish I hadn…

Colleen Boyd Swamp Angel

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 67 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).