Chinook is valid Scrabble Word

Is chinook a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for CHINOOK in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Native American) a warm dry wind that descends the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
a member of an American Indian people originally inhabiting the region around the Columbia River in Oregon.
the extinct Penutian language of the Chinook.
wind found in the Rocky Mountains
One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.
A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.
A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.
a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes
pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook
large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

ADJECTIVE:

relating to the Chinook or their language.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a warm wind

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How to use CHINOOK in a sentence

They could hear him swearing at both impartially in broken English and Chinook.
Nearly all spoke some English, and he rapidly added to his store of Chinook, so that he had no trouble in making himself understood or in understanding.
The conversation, of course, was carried on in the Chinook language, which is a mixture of the Wasco tongue and Hudson Bay French.
And all through the night the Chinook roared and they urged the weary dogs and spurred their own jaded muscles.
Out in the barren waste of the Chinook Country, lonely and gloomy, Mart had planned vengeance.
Chinook was not accustomed to inattention when he was thirsty.
Corliss stepped out and led Chinook to the distant mesa and picketed him for the night.
Corliss, running heavily in his high-heeled boots, caught up his own horse and leaped to the saddle as Chinook broke into a run.
Chinook swung down the trail taking the turns without slackening his speed and Corliss, leaning in on the curves, dodged the sweeping branches.
He accepted the challenge and, despite his better judgment, set spurs to Chinook.

Then he wheeled Chinook and loped toward the ranch.
He saddled Chinook and took the trail to the Loring rancho.
If you put that homestead deal through, you can have any horse on the range except Chinook.
Chinook is the key-language to dealings with the huge number of different tribes of American Indians.
These are called chinook winds, because they come from the direction of the country of the Chinook Indians.
We hustled for home, knowing that the Chinook would make short work of the snow.
All that day the chinook blew, working its magic upon the land.
Then a lusty-lunged chinook wind came booming up along the Klappan Range, and stripped it to a bare, steaming heap.
What harassed him most were the icy hills where the chinook had melted the snow, and the north wind, sweeping over, had frozen it all solid again.
Silently he saddled Chinook, accepted her thanks silently, and strode to his cabin.
Dorothy reined Chinook round, and rode slowly down through the silent woodlands.
In Chinook, an Indian language of the Columbia River, one can be equally free, for the relation between the verb and the two nouns is as inherently fixed as in Latin.
Chinook is spoken in a number of dialects in the lower Columbia River valley.
The air was wonderfully mild, a soft chinook wind was blowing, and the snow was disappearing from the high ground as if by magic.
The custom of artificially flattening the heads of both men and women, in infancy, was formerly practised by nearly all the tribes of the Chinook family along the Columbia River.
DICTIONARY OF THE CHINOOK JARGON, OR, TRADE LANGUAGE OF OREGON.
Some years ago the Smithsonian Institution printed a small vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, furnished by Dr.
Lionnet, a Catholic priest, for his own use while studying the language at Chinook Point.
CHINOOK, FRANKFORT and KNABTON are other fishing points on the Columbia river of importance.

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