Saponify is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for SAPONIFY in dictionary:

VERB:

to convert into soap
turn (fat or oil) into soap by reaction with an alkali
convert (any ester) into an alcohol and a metal salt by alkaline hydrolysis.
convert (a fat) into a soap by treatment with alkali
To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.
become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali
convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali

Words related to SAPONIFY

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Words that contain SAPONIFY

saponifying20

How to use SAPONIFY in a sentence

But to simplify the operation, he preferred to saponify the fat by means of lime.

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