Circumvallation is valid Scrabble Word

Is circumvallation a scrabble word?
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Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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15 letters word
24 points in Scrabble
32 points in WWF

Definitions for CIRCUMVALLATION in dictionary:

NOUN:

a surrounding with a wall
a defensive wall of a castle or walled city
The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.
A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to surround by or as if by a rampart

Words that contain CIRCUMVALLATION

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How to use CIRCUMVALLATION in a sentence

Fearing no longer any attack from without, he set resolutely to work to continue his circumvallation.
His artillery was of no use, nor his lines of circumvallation.
He stuck to his circumvallation, kept seizing provender as was convenient, and sent after other forces from home.
And it was redoubled when Philip gave orders for the demolition of the houses built along by the walls of circumvallation, on the ground that they embarrassed the defence.
The circumvallation in its best preserved places is now from seven to ten feet high.
Several lines of circumvallation and intrenchments are still to be seen.
He has drawn his lines of circumvallation round me that I may not escape.
Whereupon he invaded the territory of Phlius, and promptly drawing lines of circumvallation, commenced the siege.
Presently espying a certain rising ground, across which the Arcadians had drawn their outer line of circumvallation, Archidamus proposed to himself to take it.
There is a region called the Marsh of Sleep, which exhibits a pale red tint, a colour seen also near the Hyrcinian mountains, within a circumvallation called Lichtenburg.

Crassus drew strong lines of circumvallation around Rhegium, and by his superior numbers prevented the escape of the slaves.
Caesar immediately laid siege to the place, and drew lines of circumvallation around it.
One of the most brilliant of his feats in this sphere was the completion of his lines of circumvallation around the city of New-Orleans.
Camillus at first prepared to surround them by lines of circumvallation, and to prosecute the siege by a mound and other works.
Resistance to a relieving Army within lines of circumvallation had fallen into such disrepute and contempt that it appears to have entirely escaped consideration as a means.
Governor Henriquez began the circumvallation of the city in 1630, and his successor, Sarmiento, concluded it between the years 1635 and 1641.
He surrounded it with a circumvallation of twenty-two fortresses connected by ramparts and bridges, and cut off all access by land or sea.

Similar words containing VALLA without suffix tion and without prefix circum

vallar9 cavalla12 vallars10 vallary13 vallate10 cavallas13 vallaries12 vallation12 vallations13 circumvallate22 circumvallated24 circumvallates23 circumvallating25 contravallation20 circumvallations25

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