Canker is valid Scrabble Word

Is canker a scrabble word?
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
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6 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for CANKER in dictionary:

VERB:

to affect with ulcerous sores
(of woody plant tissue) become infected with canker
infected with a pervasive and corrupting bitterness
To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
become infected with a canker
infect with a canker
infect or become infected with or as if with canker

NOUN:

a destructive fungal disease of apple and other trees that results in damage to the bark
an open lesion in plant tissue caused by infection or injury
fungal rot in some fruits and vegetables, e.g. parsnips and tomatoes
an ulcerous condition or disease of a human or animal.
a small ulcer of the mouth or lips
ulceration of the throat and other orifices of birds, typically caused by a protozoal infection
inflammation of the ear of a dog, cat, or rabbit, typically caused by a mite infestation.
a malign and corrupting influence that is difficult to eradicate
ulceration, ulcerous disease
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse\'s foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.
A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

Words related to CANKER

cankered15 cankeredly20 cankeredness19 cankerednesses21 cankering16 cankers13

Words that contain CANKER

cankers13 cankery16 cankered15 cankering16 cankerous15 cankerier15 cankeredly20 cankerworm21 cankeriest16 cankerworms22 cankeredness19 cankerednesses21

How to use CANKER in a sentence

She had not dreamed of the canker of selfishness that lay at the root of all.
My days are in the yellow leaf, The flowers and fruits of love are gone, The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone.
He rather appeared to be pining away, with some secret mental canker.
Lucky it is in such a case if canker does not follow on.
We believe both to be due to specific causes as yet undiscovered, but that the cause of thrush is not the one operating in canker.
The exact and exciting cause of canker is therefore still an open question, and a matter for research.
Put thus, treatment of canker would at first sight appear to be easy.
I was consulted in the early part of last summer, before the dry weather had begun, as to a farm-horse with canker in three feet.
I had been troubled from my birth with canker, and at times suffered greatly.
After the canker forms on the trunk, the tree soon dies.

The canker of civilisation had got to him even in Bogota, and he could not find it in himself to go down and assassinate a blind man.
For self-love like his is an incurable disease of sensibility, a spreading canker which poisons the whole character, as an unsound spot in the flesh poisons the whole body.
The insidious smile upon the cheek would warn him of the canker in the heart.
The Bishop suffered, now and then, from that canker of a busy life, and some person offered to send him a sure remedy, on receipt of one sovereign, no more.
This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.
We are to be some time together, and I do not want to be a constant canker.
In the midst of this triumph she was attacked by a moral canker.
Derville had without knowing it laid his finger on the hidden wound, put his hand on the canker that consumed Madame Ferraud.
Disease lurked in the family like canker in a flower.
And he honestly deemed himself to be a fellow of simple tastes! Such is the effect of the canker of luxury.
The pan must be made bright, and nothing permitted to cool in it, lest it should canker.
He has many generous and exalted qualities, but the canker of aristocracy wants to be cut out.
Here he was, in the lusty April of his days, and yet life was bitter to his palate, and there was canker at the heart of the rose of Spring.
Whatever it is, unconscious as it often is, it is a canker in the family life of to-day.
Thus has the canker of self-consciousness done its work.
She saw where the canker ate and withered, but she did not know how it could be eradicated.
It was, in fact, the canker of jealousy and hatred on the part of the reactionary forces against a man, a principle, and a people.
It was the darker, sordid wickedness that was daily practised on him that ate like a canker into mind and body until he was a shattered wreck.
The impression we get is that he could not bring himself to utter the whole of the unutterable canker which haunted him.
It is the canker that, unperceived and unsuspected, is eating out the prosperity of our people.

Similar words containing CANK without suffix er

cankle12 cankers13 cankery16 cankles13 cankered15 cankering16 cankerous15 cankerier15 cankeredly20 cankerworm21 cankeriest16 cankerworms22 cankeredness19 cankerednesses21

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