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High-Scoring Words for Scrabble and Words with Friends

Word List with 27 words
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acquire
To come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own.
barbeque
Pieces of beef, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted over an open hearth.
chapeaux
Hats.
coextend
To extend equally through the same space or duration.
convexly
Having a surface that is curved or rounded outward.
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cortexes
The outer regions of an organ or structure.
duplexes
An apartment or house containing two separate residences.
explorer
A person or thing that seeks out new places.
hatboxes
A case or box for a hat.
morceaux
Pieces; morsels.
prefixed
To fix or put before or in front.
kumquats
A small, round or oblong citrus fruit having a sweet rind and acid pulp, used chiefly for preserves.
equivoke
An ambiguous expression.
exequial
Funeral rites or ceremonies; obsequies.
frequent
Happening or occurring at short intervals.
jacketed
To be enclosed in a short coat, in any of various forms, usually opening down the front.
jacuzzis
A brand name for a device for a whirlpool bath and related products.
jacquard
A fabric with an elaborately woven pattern.
jaywalks
To cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
jazziest
Pertaining to or suggestive of jazz music.
mesquite
A spiny tree or shrub belonging to the genus of the legume family, having bipinnate leaves and beanlike pods and often forming dense thickets.
mystique
An aura of mystery or mystical power surrounding a particular occupation or pursuit.
quickens
To make more rapid; accelerate; hasten.
quizzing
Giving an informal test or examination of a student or class.
quixotic
Extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
querying
A question; an inquiry.
zippered
Enclosed with a device consisting of two toothed tracks, each bordering one of two edges to be joined, and a piece that either interlocks or separates them when pulled.

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