Climax is valid Scrabble Word

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

6 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for CLIMAX in dictionary:

VERB:

to reach a high point
culminate in an exciting or impressive event; reach a climax
bring (something) to a climax
have an orgasm.
Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
The highest point; the greatest degree.
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
reach a climax

NOUN:

the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; the culmination

an orgasm.
the final stage in a succession in a given environment, at which a plant community reaches a state of equilibrium
a sequence of propositions or ideas in order of increasing importance, force, or effectiveness of expression.
most intense point of an experience, series of events, or story
the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
the decisive moment in a novel or play
the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
the most severe stage of a disease
arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to reach a high or dramatic point

Words related to CLIMAX

climaxed20 climaxes19 climaxing21

Words that contain CLIMAX

climaxed20 climaxes19 climaxing21 disclimax21 subclimax22 anticlimax21 climaxless21 disclimaxes23 subclimaxes24 anticlimaxes23 plagioclimax26 plagioclimaxes28

How to use CLIMAX in a sentence

Horror succeeded horror, and the climax came one day when we were passing a little schoolhouse some miles below the fort, in the midst of a district well populated.
Frantic with wrath and despair at the unfortunate climax of events, young Newcome embarked for India, and quitted the parents whom he was never more to see.
And, indeed, his own personal distress had increased in a marked degree during the past minutes, and continued to increase steadily to the climax.
But the place where the excitement reached its climax was the newspaper office.
We were working gradually toward that climax that I had been promised.
Furthermore, the thirty years at the close of the fifteenth century may be taken as one epoch in this climax of the art, while the first half of the sixteenth forms a second.
The rhymes within the verse determine a climax in the foot in which they occur, and all the verses follow this well-defined type.
The moment at which this book was composed and appeared had really many of the characteristics of crisis and climax in the life of the author.
Ralph gained the summit just in time to prevent the completion of the foul tragedy by its most appropriate climax.
The very climax of His ministry too was wrought in silence and solitude.

As he approaches the climax of his effort, he pants and gasps for breath, and his eyes almost start from their sockets with the violence of his exertions.
There was working in him a conviction that he was now, even now, reaching the very climax of his adventure.
Then, again, each time the noise broke forth it seemed so much worse than before, that every one felt anxious to get beyond the portal of the cave before the climax came.
To cap the climax of disasters Lee was preparing to invade the North with his victorious army.
To others the little adventure must seem trivial, but to myself it represented the climax of a chain of events.
The idea of pursuing a single, slowly developing story to its climax and conclusion dawns upon the modern stage only with the English Elizabethan drama.
Matters went from bad to worse, until on the fourth day came the climax.
The tumult of his mind had swelled and risen to an abrupt climax of silence.
Follows a final tempest and climax of the phrase of second theme.
Now that the climax was at hand, strength nearly deserted him even to stand.
In 1831 we have him at the climax of his intellectual strength, forty years of age, stored with knowledge and full of original power.
It seemed to me the simplest climax for the unfolding drama, although I should have been sorry for Diego.
And now, while the enthusiasm of his followers was developing into fanaticism, the hatred of his enemies was approaching a climax, and the war was waxing furious.
The plots are never obscure, the language is never trivial, and the play ends with a climax which leaves a profound impression.
A century of missions is reaching a tremendous climax.
Matters reached a climax then, and Grant armed himself in case of a surprise.
This is the climax of having a cooler climate than there had been.
He seemed to put a dramatic climax to a varied entertainment, and appeared unconscious of everything except the package Bart held in his hand.
As he approached the climax, the veins of his neck and forehead were swollen with passion, and the perspiration ran down his face in streams.
And thus that form of civilization attained its very climax in the moment of the greatest unity of the Roman Empire.

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