Spillway is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for SPILLWAY in dictionary:

NOUN:

a channel for overflow water in a reservoir
a passage for surplus water from a dam.
a natural drainage channel cut by water from melting glaciers or ice fields.
channel that carries away surplus water, as from a dam
A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a channel for surplus water in a reservoir

Words related to SPILLWAY

spillways17 wasteweir15

Words that contain SPILLWAY

spillways17

How to use SPILLWAY in a sentence

A charge exploded here would get at the very heart of the dam, for it would open the turbine wells and the spillway passage which had been provided for the controlled outlet.

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