mesa

Plural: mesas

Noun

A flat-topped hill with steep sides, common in arid regions.
flat tableland with steep edges
- "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water"
a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix
Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

Examples

A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
His short, solid play of MESA created a new scoring plateau.
The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.

Origin / Etymology

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.

Synonyms

table

Scrabble Score: 6

mesa: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
mesa: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mesa: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

mesa: valid Words With Friends Word