Slates is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLATES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SLATE, to roof with slate
• cover (something, especially a roof) with slates
• criticize severely
• schedule; plan
• nominate (someone) as a candidate for an office or post
• identify (a take in a film) using a slate
NOUN:
• a fine-grained grey, green, or bluish-purple metamorphic rock easily split into smooth, flat plates
• a flat plate of slate used as roofing material
• a flat plate of slate formerly used for writing on in schools
• a small portable computer that accepts input directly on to its screen rather than via a keyboard or mouse; a tablet computer
• a bluish-grey colour
• a list of candidates for election to a post or office, typically a group sharing a set of political views
• a range of something on offer
• a board showing the identifying details of a take in a film, held in front of the camera at the beginning and end of the take
• a record of a person's debit or credit (in pubs and shops formerly written on a slate)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover with slate (a roofing material)

Words related to SLATES

slate5 slated7 slating8

Words that contain SLATES

reslates8 legislates11 translates10 retranslates12 mistranslates15

How to use SLATES in a sentence

• THE SLATES ON THE ROOF The slates on the roof should be, when rightly understood, a pleasant subject for contemplation to the dweller in a town.
• The slave population of the United Slates are forbidden to hope.
• At the end of six months the slates were received again, without any writing, according to the confession of the Medium.
• The slates remained in the lap of the Medium one hour and twenty minutes.
• Furness had brought two folding slates, which could be fastened with a screw.
• He went to her house on the day named, and sat with her while she held the slates in her lap.
• Leidy pushed a thin knife-blade between the slates at the unprotected corner, marked by the arrow on the sketch.
• Upon the table were two ordinary writing slates and fragments of slate pencils.
• He was asked, among other things, if he would write on double closed-up slates.
• He then placed his thumb beneath the slates, and turned them in such a way that the left hand, or top slate, came to be the one furthest from him as it was held behind Dr.
• Two more slates were taken and apparently both sides washed.
• One was placed on the other and both laid upon the table in front of Professor Thompson, one end of the slates being held by him and the other by Mr.
• Slates were held under the table, but without result.
• Thayer handed me two of these slates, which I cleaned and examined.
• At our last seance I noticed what were evidently two prepared slates resting against the support of the table behind him, where his prepared slates usually stood.
• They naturally watched her in preference to Madame Joubert, holding their books and slates quite cunningly to hide their faces.
• Confine the roots to a narrow compass by means of slates placed just beneath the surface of the soil.
• The garden, three feet square, is defended by enormous walls of piled-up slates.
• His thoughts have suffered a sea change, and he takes badly to books and slates.
• Until then it was difficult, if not impossible, to obtain books, slates, pencils, pen, ink, and paper, and their use was limited to settlers who had brought them when they came.
• He lost his hold and fell upon the slates, slid down, and then over and over to the ground below.
• With a sigh, he then turned to a table piled with papers and slates and apparently gave himself up to the duty they entailed.
• The furious gale tore along the street carrying slates from off the roofs of the low houses.
• For otherwise the most part of them were but lightly armed with a kind of sandy brittle stone, and the rest with slates.
• It cannot be drawn on your slates as large as it was drawn on the board.
• The friend of my informant was walking in a street of Perth, when, to his horror, he saw a workman fall from a roof where he was mending slates, right upon the pavement.
• As I sat beneath my nut-tree, the mid-day sun was sparkling on the slates of her roof and the panes of her windows.

Similar words containing SLATE without suffix s

slate5 slated7 slater6 slatey9 reslate7 slaters7 reslated9 reslates8 legislate10 slatelike13 translate9 legislated12 legislates11 translated11 translates10 retranslate11 mistranslate14 retranslated13 retranslates12 untranslated13 mistranslated16 mistranslates15

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.