Counterbalance is valid Scrabble Word

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

14 letters word
20 points in Scrabble
27 points in WWF

Definitions for COUNTERBALANCE in dictionary:

VERB:

to oppose or balance with an equal weight or force
To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
adjust for
contrast with equal weight or force
oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions

NOUN:

a factor having the opposite effect to that of another and so preventing it from exercising a disproportionate influence
a weight that balances another weight
neutralize or cancel by exerting an opposite influence
(of a weight) balance (another weight)
A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
equality of distribution
a compensating equivalent

Words related to COUNTERBALANCE

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Words that contain COUNTERBALANCE

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How to use COUNTERBALANCE in a sentence

I do not for a moment pretend to say that the pleasure is sufficient to offer a just counterbalance to the other.
To counterbalance all this, the confederates are said to have lost not more than fifteen galleys, though a much larger number doubtless were rendered unfit for service.
To counter-balance the possession, perhaps, of so many virtues, gifts, testimonials, and certificates she had no chin, no eyebrows, and no eyelashes.
Surely, for two such hearts, poverty was only a detail, and could in no sense be counted of sufficient weight to counterbalance the affection each found in each.
Let us now see what there is to counterbalance any extra expense that may attend the establishment of the proposed government.
In our time, the elegance of the language would be scarcely held to counterbalance the absurdity of the compliments.
If she effect it, the triumph she will have over me upon it will be a counterbalance for all she has suffered.
A number of difficulties suggested themselves, and yet again there were favorable circumstances on the other side to counterbalance them.
If you see half-a-dozen faults in a woman, you may rest assured she has a hundred virtues to counterbalance them.
But the gift of life to the young is ever a counterbalance to every evil that is less than death.

Greeley, who could find no record of exports to counterbalance it, the same was a dead loss to the country.
Conscious of the inveterate hostility of the French king, he strove to establish relations with foreign powers to counterbalance the preponderance of his rival.
All are worried, and but few benefited by the privilege, and the advantage of it to the army never can counterbalance all the disadvantages.
The advantages would hardly counterbalance the disadvantages.
He could only counterbalance the extravagance of inns by the rigid rule of giving nothing to servants at private houses.
In order to counterbalance that scheme and the designs of the Dutch, Don Fernando formed another scheme.
We have pleasures here even in winter peculiar to the climate, which counterbalance the evils we suffer from its rigor.
Congreve makes twelve thousand pounds more than a counterbalance to the affection of Belinda.
Within the National Church there was a great deal to counterbalance these injurious tendencies and check their growth.
At the dead point, the two attractions, terrestrial and lunar, would again exactly counterbalance each other.
The intermediate piers should also have considerable stability, so as to counterbalance the thrust arising when one arch is loaded while the other is free from load.
This plan of operations, you are aware, was not acceptable at the time, from considerations which appeared so weighty as to more than counterbalance its proposed advantages.
Newman, and the Heads believed that this would counterbalance any effect from their act of authority.
To have her acquaintance with the Tilneys end so soon was an evil which nothing could counterbalance.
To lighten the load as much as possible and counterbalance the weight of water in the wrecked conning tower Ted released the torpedoes remaining in the tubes.
But did not these advantages take from the compass of the scale? If so, were they a counterbalance to the injury? I repeat that I dare not affirm anything in this respect.
She was just the companion, wise and devoted, to counterbalance the flights of imagination and the momentary transports inherent in the temperament of many artists.
These advantages counterbalance the evils of a new country, but, combining the former with the latter, emigrants should check the ardour of enthusiasm.
Chapter LII In which a great deal of loyalty is shown to counterbalance the treason of Vanslyperken.
The indications therefore of this linguistic kind nearly counterbalance one another.
Fortunately there were men like Roscoe Conkling in politics to counterbalance other kinds.
No wholesome counter-balance of knowledge is given, no attempt is made to invest the subject with dignity or to place it in relation to the welfare of others and to universal law.
Parents must have an uncommon portion of solid sense to counterbalance their natural affection sufficiently to make them competent judges in such a case.

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