Mercaptan is valid Scrabble Word

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

9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for MERCAPTAN in dictionary:

NOUN:

a substance analogous to an alcohol, with sulphur instead of oxygen
Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.
any of various compounds having the general formula RSH which are comparable to alcohols but in which sulfur replaces the oxygen of the hydroxyl group, has an offensive, garlicky odor.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

thiol
another name (not in technical usage) forthiol

Words related to MERCAPTAN

mercaptans16 thiol8

Words that contain MERCAPTAN

mercaptans16

How to use MERCAPTAN in a sentence

Recent researches have shown that a drug like mercaptan may be used to test the limit of olfactory appreciation.

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