Hippopotamus is valid Scrabble Word

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

12 letters word
23 points in Scrabble
27 points in WWF

Definitions for HIPPOPOTAMUS in dictionary:

NOUN:

a large African artiodactyl ungulate of aquatic habits
a large thick-skinned semiaquatic African mammal, with massive jaws and large tusks.
A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also zeekoe, and river horse. A smaller species (H. Liberiencis) inhabits Western Africa.
massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a very large herbivorous 4-toed chiefly aquatic artiodactyl mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius) of sub-Saharan Africa with an extremely large head and mouth, bare and very thick grayish skin, and short legs; a smaller closely related mammal (Choeropsis liberiensis) of western Africa

Words related to HIPPOPOTAMUS

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Words that contain HIPPOPOTAMUS

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How to use HIPPOPOTAMUS in a sentence

It should not be confounded with the elephant or hippopotamus, and only the most ignorant persons would suppose any connection between them.
They would have done the same with a baby or a full-grown hippopotamus.
It is a massive and powerful animal, and its fondness for the water is almost as strong as that displayed by the hippopotamus.
The head of a Hippopotamus has recently been brought to England, with all the flesh about it, in a high state of preservation.
It went wallowing through the pool and down the rapid like a playful hippopotamus.
Reynolds, representing a young Hippopotamus seated under a shady tree, presents to the contemplative mind a charming union of youth and innocence.
The hippopotamus, unknown in India, was confined to the single province of Egypt, where it was included among the animals which were the objects of popular worship.
At this the camel swung himself fiercely on his branch, and bumped against the hippopotamus, knocking him off from the tree.
So when the hippopotamus fell he sank half way into the ground, and his beautiful brown color was spattered with the muddy chocolate.
The care exercised was the more necessary, as it was essential that the wood under the hippopotamus hide should be preserved from internal as well as external influences.

The hippopotamus is a very nervous animal, and is besides very vicious and irritable.
In our world a plant grows wild, which is much liked by the hippopotamus.
Among the bones contained in the strata nearest the present surface of the earth, are those of the hippopotamus, the rhinoceros, and the elephant.
In many respects it may be likened to a hippopotamus without tusks or legs.
Yet he was nimble withal, a man capable of swift and sure movement within a limited area, therein resembling a bull, or a hippopotamus.
Six battleships, fourteen cruisers, and eighteen transports sailed up the mouth of the river Hippopotamus.
The hippopotamus long maintained its ground before returning to those equatorial regions whence it had been brought by the Nile.
First he went to a restaurant a few doors away, and in five minutes succeeded in making way with a steak that had apparently been manufactured out of the hide of a hippopotamus.
The delight he took in the hippopotamus family was most exhilarating.
But we are told that he was slain by a hippopotamus, the Egyptian symbol of a foe.
The whole body of the female hippopotamus, before alluded to, was covered with red-coloured perspiration whilst giving birth to her young.
Even the hippopotamus, when threatening with its widely-open enormous mouth a comrade, draws back its small ears, just like a horse.
That odd-looking object, like a rock, is the head of a hippopotamus.
He sees the good temper of the frog, the unaccountable happiness of the hippopotamus.
He was a man of forty years of age, six feet high, with the chest of a hippopotamus, and a mild expression of face.
Casey thought again of the hippopotamus in its infancy.
Sometimes this punishment is exceedingly severe, being inflicted with the coorbatch, or whip of hippopotamus hide, which is cracked vigorously about his ribs and back.
He captured one hundred and forty-two of the enemy and a male hippopotamus, and took them to the fore part of the Boat of Ra.
You might expect a hippopotamus, or any kind of beast.

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