Defensible is valid Scrabble Word

Is defensible a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for DEFENSIBLE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

that can be defended
justifiable by argument
able to be protected
Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.
Capable of offering defense.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

capable of being defended

Words related to DEFENSIBLE

defensibilities21 defensibility22 defensibly19

Words that contain DEFENSIBLE

indefensible18 defensibleness20

How to use DEFENSIBLE in a sentence

But a position may be quite defensible, yet obviously untrue.
On which Caesar thought that further additions should be made to these works, in order that the fortifications might be defensible by a small number of soldiers.
Great praise was due to General Hancock, and perhaps still more to General Howard, for early perceiving the strength of Cemetery Hill as a defensible position.
If ever a lawless act was defensible on the principle of self-preservation, the murder of Charles might be defended.
In this state of affairs the Governments of Austria and of Prussia took a somewhat singular and not very defensible course.
If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible.
That it should occur so in real life, and not merely in a moral tale! The position of the rich man is so defensible.
But, as a rule, in this early period, the measures taken both by the revolutionary committees and by the army officers were easily defensible on the ground of military necessity.
In case of dire need each cabin was separately defensible.
I have suggested three kinds of secrecy which are human and defensible.

I hold the work to be defensible, and I deny the right of any one to interfere with the full and free discussion of social questions affecting the happiness of the nation.
Some words have two sounds, which may be equally admitted, as being equally defensible by authority.
A thickset hedge may be rendered defensible by throwing up against it a slight parapet of earth.
It was an important acquisition, because at its north-west extremity was a good and defensible anchorage, Gros Ilet Bay, only thirty miles from Fort Royal in Martinique.
One man certainly has as defensible a right to work as another man has to be idle.
They were by their situation strong, and probably made otherwise defensible.
Much of the equipment for the Polar mines had already been shifted into defensible ground.
This point was known to be further protected by a battery of unknown strength, at Wiltown Bluff, a commanding and defensible situation.
This placed the army in a strong, defensible position, with the creek in its front.
Is it by Rabelais or by someone else? Both theories are defensible, and can be supported by good reasons.
The position, not naturally strong, was rendered more defensible by a moat, beyond which flows a stream.
The exemption from taxation of private profitable enterprises, such as mills or factories, is less defensible.
The places so called were nothing more than collections of huts, surrounded by rampart and ditch, in some easily defensible spot amid wood or marsh.
Many men were working on the city walls, trying to make the place defensible.
This is not defensible as an idiom, as those who always used it before their attention was directed to it take the trouble to point out.
The sensational psychology, again, whether scientifically defensible or not, clearly tends to heighten our idea of the power of education and institutions upon character.
There is no Irish Budget or Irish Exchequer to make a separate Irish Government logically defensible.
Now a definite halt at this position is intelligible and defensible.
At Dalwhinnie, Cope found that the clans held the pass, which is very defensible.
This attitude toward life is defensible on the highest grounds.
Slavery, fiscal regulations for its extinction not defensible, 290.

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