Maternal is valid Scrabble Word

Is maternal a scrabble word?
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Is maternal valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for MATERNAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

pertaining to a mother
relating to a mother, especially during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth
(of feelings) typical of a caring mother; motherly
Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.
relating to or derived from one\'s mother
relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
related on the mother\'s side
of a mother
related through the mother's side of the family

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

pertaining to or characteristic of a mother

Words related to MATERNAL

maternalism15 maternalisms16 maternally15

Words that contain MATERNAL

bimaternal14 maternally15 unmaternal12 maternalism15 maternalisms16 maternalistic17

How to use MATERNAL in a sentence

His youngest maternal brother, named Arabucha, lives with him, and keeps up his mothers court, who was a Christian.
The maternal wing is a safe shelter for confiding little souls like you, Miss Ruth.
Came likewise the scene, after Joe had departed, when the maternal feelings of Mrs.
But they are now reduced to an appeal to the maternal instinct of the women.
She had therefore sacrificed maternal love to conjugal affection.
This select gathering partakes of a feast, which is presided over by the maternal grandmother.
This gives the physical basis for paternal inheritance as well as for maternal inheritance, and it shows why they may be of the same or equivalent degree.
He lived upon terms of intimacy with the younger Scipio and Laelius, and was the maternal ancestor of Pompey the Great.
Thus it can be seen that he was the maternal grandfather of this fifth representative.
Her maternal affection was too weak to oppose the gratification of her passions, particularly her pride, her ambition, and her bigotry.

Though he had acquired a tolerable fortune by a maternal uncle, he found his affairs so injured by his expenses, that he was obliged to take a farm at St.
Such calculations of maternal jealousy were wasted.
Two of the sisters left France, and the third confided the little girl to her nearest relation, Monsieur de Faucombe, her maternal great-uncle, who lived in Nantes.
We name children after their fathers, and the fact that they are also to some extent of the maternal stock is obscured.
It consists of a form of tin or other suitable maternal, placed on a frame or slide, and having the shape required in the comb.
Some moralists hold that love is an involuntary passion, the most disinterested, the least calculating, of all the passions, except maternal love.
I have already stated that maternal affection had no part in her character.
When Isaac was three years old his mother married again, and he was given over to the charge of his maternal grandmother.
This blind maternal affection was accompanied in this instance by household devotion.
You might not find such a husband as I would wish you, and I should be sorry to see your maternal cares rewarded as were poor Mrs.
There are no mothers who rear, and educate in the natural graces, finer daughters than the Ethiopian women, who have the least chance to give scope to their maternal affections.
She assumed at once toward him that maternal attitude which is peculiar to office girls endowed with psychological insight.
As I read this letter I felt the maternal heart beating beneath my fingers which held the paper while I was still cold from the harsh greeting of my own mother.
Maternal impressions are usually received at a later period, when the form of the child is complete and it is merely growing.
Mother and daughter had a true friendship for each other, beyond the filial and maternal sentiment.

Similar words containing MATERN without suffix al

maternity14 bimaternal14 maternally15 unmaternal12 maternalism15 maternities13 maternalisms16 maternalistic17

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