Compasses is valid Scrabble Word

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

9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for COMPASSES in dictionary:

VERB:

COMPASS, to surround or enclose
go round (something) in a circular course
surround or hem in on all sides
contrive to accomplish (something)

NOUN:

an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it
an instrument for drawing circles and arcs and measuring distances between points, consisting of two arms linked by a movable joint, one arm ending in a point and the other usually carrying a pencil or pen
the range or scope of something
the enclosing limits of an area
the range of notes that can be produced by a voice or a musical instrument
An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to go around

Words related to COMPASSES

compass13 compassed16 compassing17

Words that contain COMPASSES

encompasses17 gyrocompasses23 astrocompasses20

How to use COMPASSES in a sentence

The compasses must be opened two and one-half inches.
We set out, I repeat, on our campaign without a map of the country and with our compasses pointing the wrong way.
Two compasses, which we placed on the table during one seance, remained unaffected by Dr.
Compasses and charts were all stored in the companion-way, and were therefore lost for ever.
He and Macdonald were busy with pencil and compasses over a chart.
It would be well to have a dozen cheap but good watches and the same number of compasses for use around camp and for gifts or trade along the line of travel.
Captain Godfrey had been fortunate in bringing with him from England several small compasses and two larger ones, one of the latter he took with him.
He had fortunately saved two of the compasses from the flames.
Had the trees, and the bodies of the men and women, been divided into equal segments by a rule or pair of compasses, the portions could not have been more regular.
Captain Morgan, lashed to the bridge, has full confidence in himself, his doubled watch ahead, his compasses, and the throbbing engines below.

Next place the point of your compasses at A and with the distance A D describe the arc cutting H B at E.
Then place the point of your compasses at D and with the distance D E describe the arc cutting the circumference at F.
But when brought to the Moon, it was expected that these compasses, once more subjected to the influence of the current, would attest certain phenomena.
It was during this time that Galileo invented the proportional compasses, an instrument now in use everywhere, without the slightest change having been made in it.
Lawrence at Rotterdam, partially preserved, they are painted with compasses and trowel in hand.
They managed to secure maps and compasses by bribing some of the Russian attendants.
The compass had been smashed during the fight, and not a sailor among them owned one of the tiny compasses that are often worn as a charm on the watchchain.
This is done with the aid of a pair of compasses, a few clay-modeling tools, and the deft use of the fingers.
You can test this for yourself in a moment with a pair of compasses, or, still more simply, by laying a point of a pencil on any part of the cord and following it round.
By the light of the fire he cut two little flat rulers, which he joined together at one end so as to form a pair of compasses, whose legs could separate or come together.
But these compasses, taken upon the lunar disc, might show particular phenomena.
Consequently, she moves to laws that seem erratic to those for whom a pair of compasses can lay down the limit.
Now and then she made measurements of him with a pair of compasses.
As high as heaven is above the earth that it compasses around, so high above all other utterances is this Law, this fiend-destroying Law of Mazda.
His pupils wrote what he saw fit to dictate, and he taught them how to use the compasses.
Upon measuring with the compasses the distance between the insertion of the thread and this dot, we find exactly the distance, N P, of our diagram.
They took food and water with them, and compasses to sail by.

Similar words containing MPASSE without suffix s and without prefix co

impasse11 impasses12 lampasse12 compassed16 lampasses13 encompassed18 encompasses17 gyrocompasses23 astrocompasses20

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