Buttresses is valid Scrabble Word

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

10 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for BUTTRESSES in dictionary:

VERB:

BUTTRESS, to prop up
provide (a building or structure) with buttresses
increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce

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

Words related to BUTTRESSES

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How to use BUTTRESSES in a sentence

It lay before him with its grey familiar towers, a pinnacle or two shining in the sun, the buttresses and terrace walls casting great blue shades on the grass.
Walburga, with the delicate tracery of her flying buttresses and her spire fine as a needle.
I reached the ruined castle at the foot of the limestone buttresses supporting the plateau above.
The whole square is surrounded by a wall of cobblestones and mortar, ten or twelve feet in height, strengthened by buttresses at intervals of forty or fifty feet.
Here and there grew immense trees, and on some of them mighty buttresses sprang from the base.
The walls are nearly four feet thick and the buttresses are sturdy in proportion.
The walls and buttresses alike slope inwards at an angle of nine degrees.
From some parts of it, the flying buttresses of the nave of the Abbey of St.
Their shapeless masses are strewn over one of those grass-clad spurs that extend here and there to the foot of the cliff like giant buttresses.
A wide roadway of cement, with vast buttresses on each side, ran along the top of the dam and looked down upon the abrupt surface of its lower face.

Flat buttresses flank the entire composition on either side.
The church has no far-projecting buttresses to give light and shade, no flying buttresses or pinnacles like those that lend such a charm to most French and many English churches.
Thus, on the south the aisle buttresses are crowned by lofty pinnacles having at their bases niches, in some of which statues still remain.
These pinnacles appear to have been originally connected with the wall of the nave by flying buttresses, traces of which still exist, both on the walls and the pinnacles.
Its chief, almost its only decoration, is provided by the buttresses and the beautiful tracery of the acutely-pointed windows.
On these buttresses and on the wall of the nave are the marks of flying buttresses which have been removed, as has been stated in the account of the north side of the nave.
But for small gables on the buttresses, it is quite plain up to the level of the roof ridge.
Of its church the only old portion is the tower, with angular buttresses finishing in pinnacles.
The buttresses to the church are, like those of the chapel of St.
The lower part is quite plain, excepting two Norman buttresses.
He planted piles, and made buttresses and burned them, leaving their charred and blackened ruins, standing in the water from shore to shore.

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