Filibuster is valid Scrabble Word

Is filibuster a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for FILIBUSTER in dictionary:

VERB:

to obstructs legislation by making long speeches
act in an obstructive manner in a legislative assembly, especially by speaking at inordinate length
obstruct (proposed legislation) with a filibuster.
To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
obstruct deliberately by delaying
to make such speeches

NOUN:

an action such as prolonged speaking which obstructs progress in a legislative assembly in a way that does not technically contravene the required procedures.
a person engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign state.
A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.

a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
(law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
orig a plunderer; a freebooter; also, one who obstructs legislation by making long speeches

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an irregular military adventurer; an American engaged in fomenting insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th century
orig. a plunderer; a freebooter; also, one who obstructs legislation by making long speeches

Words related to FILIBUSTER

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Words that contain FILIBUSTER

filibusters16 filibustered18 filibusterer17 filibusterers18 filibustering19 filibusterism20 filibusterous18 antifilibuster19 filibusterings20 filibusterisms21 antifilibusters20

How to use FILIBUSTER in a sentence

He was, indeed, if the tales current about him were true, the most remarkable character in all that very variegated conglomerate of characters which made up the filibuster army.
And, indeed, the filibuster ranks were not wanting in cowards.
Information about alleged filibuster movements found a ready market at the Spanish legation.
WALKER THE FILIBUSTER, AND THE INVASION OF NICARAGUA.
But while Walker the president was no more, Walker the filibuster was not squelched.
In 1679 this famous French filibuster commanded a ship of ninety tons, armed with six guns, and manned by a crew of eighty-six French sailors.
A French filibuster who in 1684 had his headquarters in San Domingo.
This French filibuster was a man of much better birth and education than the usual buccaneer.
Sir Thomas Reade, the noisiest filibuster of them all, indicates his method of settling matters at Longwood.

Similar words containing FILIBUST without suffix er

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