Caries is valid Scrabble Word

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

6 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for CARIES in dictionary:

NOUN:

tooth decay
decay and crumbling of a tooth or bone.
Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.
soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth

Words related to CARIES

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Words that contain CARIES

scariest10 vicaries13 peccaries15 piscaries13 anticaries12 poticaries14 unscariest12 formicaries18 pothecaries18 apothecaries19 bibliothecaries24

How to use CARIES in a sentence

Caries of the os pedis, of the lateral ligaments of the pedal-joint, or of the lateral cartilages, is a result.
Necrosis of tendon, of ligament, or of cartilage, caries of the bone, or a condition of synovitis and arthritis may be met with.
It must be remembered, however, that often the bone has been so diseased that spots of necrosis or caries within it are bound to remain unless moved by operative interference.
Scrofula, consumption, cancer, rickets, diseases of the brain and nerves, decay of the bones by caries or necrosis, and other diseases, arise in this way.
Dental caries, or decay, is at first largely a chemical process and affects the tooth proper.
This want of lateral expansion is frequently seen in the jaws, upper and lower, of the American, and has been considered a common cause of caries of the teeth.

Similar words containing CARIE without suffix s

caried9 cariere9 scarier9 carieres10 scariest10 vicaries13 peccaries15 piscaries13 unscarier11 anticaries12 poticaries14 unscariest12 formicaries18 pothecaries18 apothecaries19 bibliothecaries24

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