Embankments is valid Scrabble Word

Is embankments a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
21 points in Scrabble
26 points in WWF

Definitions for EMBANKMENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:

EMBANKMENT, a raised structure (as of earth or gravel) used esp. to hold back water or to carry a roadway
a bank of earth or stone built to carry a road or railway over an area of low ground
a wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a raised structure (as of earth or gravel) used especially to hold back water or to carry a roadway

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How to use EMBANKMENTS in a sentence

Flat as I lay, I saw the German embankments not fifty yards away.
But the almost uninjured railway trucks that had run their little race, down embankments into the bush, were saved to run again.
The rice grounds or fields are laid out in squares, and surrounded by embankments, to retain the water of the rains or streams.
It was found necessary to run embankments practically parallel with the current, in order to confine the waters of the river in its channel.
The long grey walls of the embankments slip by, to be succeeded presently by wooded slopes.
In some places there were earth-covered foundations of ancient walls and embankments that enclosed spaces of eight or ten acres.
Some of the halls represent a fortification, with walls, ditches and embankments, made of muskets and swords.
They are sunk in the earth, surrounded with a ditch and embankments, and each is capable of containing ten cannon and three hundred men.
In this manner, at Lowestoffe-Ness, as well as at Yarmouth, the sea has erected a series of natural embankments against itself.
The respective lines of growth are indicated by a series of small embankments, perfectly defined.

Where there are no embankments, the water comes up to the roots of the trees, and a carpet of grass, moss, and tropical vegetation grows from the salt tide to the roadway.
Occasional cross embankments divided the fields for greater convenience of control.
With two long embankments of brick and mortar he bound its bed.
With two long embankments of brick and mortar I built the sides of its ditch.
A large area of Lincolnshire lies below the level of the sea, from which it is protected by embankments.
The fighting men were at their posts on the flanking embankments.
The embankments were held with even greater confidence.
Small, isolated raids came at intervals only to be swept back by rifle fire from the embankments.
On railroad embankments, the seed is scattered more commonly on the upper portion, and from the plants which grow there the seeds produced scatter downward.
When grown to keep soils from washing or railroad embankments from breaking down, it will, of course, renew itself in the same way.
The rough stones for the approaches and embankments came from higher up, where the Turks by their bombing activities had kindly saved the engineers the trouble of blasting.
These artificial lakes are usually formed by throwing embankments across the lower extremities of valleys, and thus arresting and accumulating the waters flowing through them.
All along the levee they saw gangs of men at work strengthening the embankments and raising them still higher.
Ordinarily, the best, because the cheapest, material of which these embankments can be made, is the soil of the marsh itself.
In lieu of stones, small mud embankments are formed round the graves, which are ornamented with shreds of cloth tied to small sticks, with broken pots, and sometimes ostrich eggs.
Behind the deep cuttings and high embankments the Confederate fighting-line was strongly placed.
Never, under any circumstances, take cover in farm buildings, or plantations, or behind railway embankments, or in any place likely to be marked on a large-scale map.
In the broad valleys, low embankments, of sufficient height to maintain the water at a depth of two or three inches, separate the fields.
When the seed beds have been planted, the people go to the fields, repair the embankments, and admit the water.
He reconstructed this bridge, adding strong embankments to prevent injury by floods.
The line indeed is a marvel of engineering construction, for a most difficult piece of country is traversed without a single tunnel and with very few cuttings and embankments.
The walls of the ancient city can be seen in miniature in stone and concrete embankments, or even the stone fences common in some sections.

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