Buccaneering is valid Scrabble Word

Is buccaneering a scrabble word?
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12 letters word
19 points in Scrabble
26 points in WWF

Definitions for BUCCANEERING in dictionary:

NOUN:

acting as a buccaneer
hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it

ADJECTIVE:

(especially in a business context) high-risk and adventurous

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies; broadly; pirate

Words related to BUCCANEERING

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Words that contain BUCCANEERING

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How to use BUCCANEERING in a sentence

Koltchak prepared to deal with this mutinous and buccaneering officer.
Sharkey, with four men, was buccaneering on the outlying island of La Vache.
That buccaneering, rough and tumble life out there has its attractions.
With the decadence of buccaneering and the growth of Indian trade, there was a corresponding increase of piracy, and European traders ceased to enjoy immunity.
As buccaneering became more dangerous, or less lucrative, adventurers of all nations again appeared in Eastern waters, and the old trouble reappeared in an aggravated form.
Until 1640 buccaneering in the West Indies was more or less accidental, occasional, in character.
Many of the French, forced to seek another occupation, naturally fell into the way of buccaneering.
Buccaneering had always been so much a part of the life of the colony that it was difficult to stamp it out entirely.
Many sailors and marines were drowned, and seven men-of-war, besides several buccaneering ships, were lost on the rocks.
The inhabitants were beginning to realize that in the encouragement of planting, and not of buccaneering, lay the permanent welfare of the island.

Planting and buccaneering, side by side, were inconsistent and incompatible, and the colonists chose the better course of the two.
Buccaneering was now rapidly being transformed into pure piracy.
Buccaneering had denuded Jamaica of its bravest men, lowered the moral tone of the island, and retarded the development of its natural resources.
For buccaneering had now become a most profitable employment, operations were extended, and a storehouse secure from the attacks of the Spaniards was required.
On Friday, May 27th, 1680, while ashore with a watering party in the Gulf of Nicoya, the interpreter, having had, no doubt, his fill of buccaneering, ran away.
The fair stone houses which Drake saw are long since gone, having been destroyed in one of the buccaneering raids a century later.
Basil Ringrose had but lately arrived at the Indies, and it is not known what induced him to go buccaneering.
As they moved away from the battlefield, firing as they retreated, old John Watling was shot in the liver with a bullet, and fell dead there, to go buccaneering no more.
There is no doubt in my mind that in the great buccaneering days of the seventeenth century, and probably much later, the place was the haunt of pirates.

Similar words containing BUCCANEER without suffix ing

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