Contrabands is valid Scrabble Word

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

11 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for CONTRABANDS in dictionary:

NOUN:

CONTRABAND, illegal or prohibited traffic in goods
anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported.
goods imported or exported illegally.
illegal or prohibited trade; smuggling.
contraband of war.
(during the American Civil War) a black slave who escaped to or was brought within the Union lines.

ADJECTIVE:

prohibited from export or import.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

illegal or prohibited traffic in goods; smuggling

Words related to CONTRABANDS

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How to use CONTRABANDS in a sentence

The camps near Washington fortunately became centers for the employment of contrabands in the city.
After some delay this was finally done and special officers were detailed to take charge of the contrabands.
The management of the contrabands, who were from week to week making their way into the lines of the Northern armies, was simplified.
He is reluctant to have slaves declared freemen, but has no objection to their being declared contrabands.
Upon the ringing of the bell, about forty contrabands came to the yard.
The contrabands complained that the free colored men ought to be required to work on the intrenchments as well as they.
The contrabands worked well, and in no instance was it found necessary for the superintendents to urge them.
A subaltern officer, to whom I had insisted that the contrabands should be treated with kindness, had sneered at the idea of applying philanthropic notions in time of war.
There was one striking feature in the contrabands which must not be omitted.
On Monday evening, July 15th, when the contrabands deposited their tools in the court-house, I requested them to stop a moment in the yard.

The conversations of the contrabands on their title to be regarded as freemen showed reflection.
There was a very general desire among the contrabands to know how to read.
In natural tact and the faculty of getting a livelihood the contrabands are inferior to the Yankees, but quite equal to the mass of the Southern population.
I had seen many contrabands, but never one so attractive as this.
When I was aroused, I found a barricade thrown up across the road, and a force of contrabands digging a trench across the field.
The colored race then presented itself to me in the character of numerous contrabands of war, and as a people who, individually, yearned for the light and life of liberty.
The soldiers forming the garrison at Waterproof, at that time, were from a regiment raised by Colonel Eaton, superintendent of contrabands at Vicksburg.
Among the groups who stood in the streets were many contrabands, and their faces were pitiful to see.

Similar words containing NTRABAND without suffix s and without prefix co

contraband15 contrabandism20 contrabandist18 contrabandisms21 contrabandists19

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