Buttress is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for BUTTRESS in dictionary:

VERB:

to prop up
provide (a building or structure) with buttresses
increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce
To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
reinforce with a buttress
make stronger or defensible
support with, or as if with, a buttress

NOUN:

a structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it
a projecting portion of a hill or mountain.
a source of defence or support

structure to support a wall
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
Anything which supports or strengthens.
a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

Words related to BUTTRESS

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Words that contain BUTTRESS

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How to use BUTTRESS in a sentence

And out of them, buttress by buttress, growing and going upwards, aspiring tower by tower, rose the cathedral.
Pointed arches, clustered columns, vaulted roof, spire buttress.
Had Ranald seen the incident? No, he stood with his back to a buttress looking in the opposite direction.
Where an inconvenient buttress projected, a narrow passage was cut through it for the channel, and the marks of the chisel look as fresh as if they had been lately made.
Here and there, through the curve of a flying buttress, or the apertures of a pierced parapet, gay bits of this yellow world were caught and framed.
That seems a rather tame fact to buttress Arabian Nights withal, but it implies much.
I cited similar cases further to buttress my position.
A line of men was drawn across country, so as to make a buttress against any advance by the crazy Kaffirs.
Sometimes, as in Central Africa, the slope to the west is very sudden, and another range of mountains forms the western buttress of the great central plateau.
This buttress to integrity, this assurance of self-respect, is to be found in a universal training to efficiency in Productive Labor.

She sped about one last jutting buttress, then stopped abruptly, one hand on her heaving breast.
The pillars that sustain its authority and buttress its structure are the twin institutions of the Guardianship and of the Universal House of Justice.
The central tower has none, but the west tower has an octagonal buttress at each corner.
A projecting buttress or pier in the middle of the east wall divides that end of the room into two portions.
The portion of an arch visible above, acts as a buttress to the tower arches.
Between each stall is a small buttress beginning at the capital and finishing somewhat beneath the top of the large pinnacle.
But the use of the buttress is an anomalous feature which it is difficult to believe was of aboriginal conception.
It is singular that the necessity for such expedients did not develop the idea of a buttress.
In only one place in the canyon was a buttress found.
The cloister walk acted as a kind of continuous buttress to the south aisle wall, and owing to its removal this part of the wall was gradually pushed outward.
The Church, most privileged of all corporations, turned her miracles and her terrors, both present and future, into the most powerful buttress of the fabric.
On the buttress between the eleventh and twelfth arch was a cross of gilded bronze, supported by a pedestal of stone.
The trail changed to a zigzag along a seamed and cracked buttress where ledges leaned outward waiting to fall.
Pierre aimed straight for the foot of the buttress, working thus due north.
He did not say that they had lost yet another hour upon the face of the buttress.
Before, the ledge continued until it passed from sight about another projecting buttress of the mountain.
As they reached a recess near the tower, Linda stopped and leaned against a buttress with her arms crossed on her breast.
And to insure that virtue should not lack its reward he proceeded to buttress the edifice by a second line of support.

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