Detectives is valid Scrabble Word

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

10 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for DETECTIVES in dictionary:

NOUN:

DETECTIVE, a policeman, usually not in uniform, or other person (private detective) who investigates cases of crime
a person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes
denoting a rank of police officer with investigative duties
concerning crime and its investigation

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

fitted for or used in detecting something

Words related to DETECTIVES

detective15

How to use DETECTIVES in a sentence

For two hours I sat at his stable fire, talking and turning him inside out, as only we detectives know how.
It included the employment of detectives for the spring months, and then, if they had not met with success, a journey by Stanley during the weeks of his summer vacation.
With such a weapon I felt that I could, when the crisis came, rob the detectives of their victory.
He had arrived at the conclusion that the neighborhood was sown so thickly with detectives that one could not throw a stone without hitting one.
Detectives tried to enter, but were told that it was a private car, which it was.
And when the girl retired, the conversation turned upon the proceedings of the London detectives in pursuit of the unknown murderers.
Detectives never are surprised at anything that may happen at any time to anybody, nor have they ever any opinions to venture in advance.
One matter puzzled the colonel as well as the other detectives.
But we detectives are used to all sorts of complications, and, more than once, they have to do with women.
Like rats in a trap, the two detectives were held so they could do nothing to aid themselves.

The shock upon the imprisoned detectives was awful.
You are also watched by detectives residing in the village, as I dare say you know.
He was undoubtedly a detective, and surely detectives did not without cause shadow ladies of good social standing? Mark knew there was something wrong.
I was astonished to see even the detectives paying real money for what they drank.
I thought this was queer until I remembered you told me that detectives usually hunt in couples, and I thought he was another officer from headquarters.
Finally, there was the evidence of the detectives who originally arrested him at Liverpool Docks in view of his suspicious demeanour.
I have also been told by numerous detectives that they were hired by the A.
The strangers who visit the city throw an immense amount of work upon the Detectives.
But the Detectives are not always successful in their efforts.
The baffled Detectives could again only look at it helplessly, and send descriptions of it over the country.
The detectives were set to work to trace out the robbery.
They sent to Dublin for two detectives, who arrived.
This is why Dr Hodgson, on his arrival in America, set detectives on the tracks of Mr and Mrs Piper.
An appeal was then made to the detectives who occupied the side bar behind the counsel to make way.
The detectives then yielded, and the professional gentlemen and the reporters were accommodated.
Piper and her husband have been watched by detectives, and have not been discovered in any attempts to procure information.
But the detectives had taken care to be present, and so they put in their word.
Twenty minutes later there was a ring at the door and the three detectives, a tall thin man, a short heavy man, and a squarely built angular man, were ushered in.
I employed detectives to assist me, and in four days had the information on which to act.

Similar words containing TECTIVE without suffix s and without prefix de

detective15 protective17 protectives18 protectively22 detectivelike23 cryoprotective26 overprotective24 protectiveness21 radioprotective23 neuroprotective22 protectivenesse22 overprotectiven25 protectivenesses23 overprotectiveness28 overprotectivenesses30

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