Stopes is valid Scrabble Word

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

6 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for STOPES in dictionary:

VERB:

STOPE, to excavate in layers
(in mining) excavate a series of steps or layers in (the ground or rock).
the process by which country rock is broken up and removed by the upward movement of magma.

NOUN:

a step-like working in a mine
birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to excavate in layers, as ore

Words related to STOPES

stope7 stoped9 stoping10

How to use STOPES in a sentence

In blocking out the stopes, the uprights are 6 feet 2 inches, just one foot shorter than those in the main drives.

Similar words containing STOPE without suffix s

stope7 stoped9 stoper8 stopers9 mastopexy23 mastopexies22 postoperative20 postoperatively25

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