Advances is valid Scrabble Word

Is advances a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is advances valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for ADVANCES in dictionary:

VERB:

ADVANCE, to put forward, to go forward
move forward in time
change the date of (an event) so as to occur earlier than planned
(of shares) increase in price
pay (money) to (someone) before it is due
move forwards in a purposeful way
make or cause to make progress
put forward (a theory or suggestion)
lend (money) to (someone)
an increase in amount or price

a loan
a forward movement
a development or improvement
an amount of money paid before it is due or for work only partly completed
done, sent, or supplied beforehand

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to move or cause to move ahead

Words related to ADVANCES

advance13 advanced15 advancing16

Words that contain ADVANCES

readvances16 disadvances18

How to use ADVANCES in a sentence

When Morton had made advances towards her, she had repulsed him scornfully, telling him she was the Countess of Bothwell.
He was jealous, jealous to hot anger, at being neglected, but could not bring himself to make advances to his own son.
Now, whatever theories may have come into fashion and gone out of fashion, the real science of mind advances with the progress of society like all other sciences.
Neither side, therefore, will make any direct proposals to its antagonists nor any open advances to a neutral.
Accordingly, we shall find that, though the Duke of Tuscany made advances to win him back to Florence, Michelangelo always preferred to live and die on neutral ground in Rome.
As others had done this before, no one regarded it as an affront upon his society, and several people in the hotel made advances to him, which he received politely but coldly.
As the season advances give more air, until they are planted out in May.
What proportion would the men who might respect her bear to the men who might make her the object of advances, which it was hardly possible to imagine without shuddering.
In this condition she has to endure the advances of Marcelline, the daughter of Rocco, who neglects her lover Jaquino for the sake of the attractive new-comer.
For talk carried about through a camp cannot keep secrets, for it advances little by little until it is carried out even to the enemy.

The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the constitution.
Evidently we are standing only upon the threshold of marked advances along these lines.
As long as we live in the flesh, we are but beginning and making advances in that which shall be completed in a future life.
The amount of excess in these advances for the four years, was near L2,000,000, so that in fact there remained about L1,100,000, as a real surplus of income beyond expenditure.
At the time of the grant it was intended that the advances should be repaid as soon as the tenants should pay up their arrears.
They even expressed surprise that the Belgians would not return their advances.
To all his advances she had presented an absolutely unyielding front.
I may mention, on the same authority, that the whole eye certainly advances a little during each violent expiration.
Advances in science and technology have provided mankind with a new stage on which to go through a new act and speak a new piece.
Whether it be from fatigue, want of military training, or lack of proper leaders, the Greeks seem to have been unable to withstand the advances of the enemy.
They seemed more pleased than he had ever seen them, and the dog responded readily to their advances.
Harcourt held back, as if waiting for the advances to be made on my side.
With the Central and Southern advances, General Mackenzie, from Luderitzbucht, occupied Garub on the 22nd of February, and Aus on March 31.

Similar words containing ADVANCE without suffix s

advance13 advanced15 advancer14 tadvance14 advancers15 readvance15 disadvance17 readvanced17 readvances16 advancement19 disadvanced19 disadvances18 advancements20

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