Poise is valid Scrabble Word

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

5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for POISE in dictionary:

VERB:

to hold in a state of equilibrium
be or cause to be balanced or suspended
be ready and prepared to do something
Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.
The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.
That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
be motionless, in suspension
prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult

hold or carry in equilibrium
be balanced or suspended

NOUN:

graceful and elegant bearing in a person
composure and dignity of manner
balance; equilibrium
a unit of dynamic viscosity, such that a tangential force of one dyne per square centimetre causes a velocity change one centimetre per second between two parallel planes separated by one centimetre in a liquid.
calm dignified manner
To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.
To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.
To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.
To weigh (down); to oppress.
a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second
a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium
great coolness and composure under strain

Words related to POISE

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Words that contain POISE

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How to use POISE in a sentence

You undervalue their intelligence, their patriotism, their poise towards the serious matters of life.
Sobered a trifle, her mental processes somewhat less incoherent, still she knew she would hardly regain her poise until she was alone.
They praised her classical features, the admirable poise of her head, her peerless complexion.
Somehow her poise, her slender grace of movement and of attitude, had lent her the impression of a stature she did not possess.
Amongst animals the only social poise, the only true self-possession and absence of shyness is shown by the cud-chewing cow.
Power is only a balance or poise between virtue and vice, or a suspension between good and evil.
Poise, indeed, for a cook among sailors and packers.
These labors enabled her to do honor to one she had trusted through many years, whose name and fame she greatly revered, and to recover the even poise of her life.
All of thirty she was, with the poise of her years.
To rub elbows with normal people tended to restore my mental poise.

Miss Stella Benton, for all her poise, was not above jumping at conclusions.
Jack Fyfe until such time as you get back to a normal poise.
Not only the brute that was on the point of leaping at her, but three others, turned as soon as they could poise themselves and went after her at their utmost bent.
No sooner had the former heard that he had been called a Babi than he became so perturbed that his poise and dignity forsook him.
She had a something boyish in poise and action that really made her charm, but that also set her hopelessly out of her time.
After the first twenty-four hours of grief over the parting with Diana, Enoch began to recover his mental poise.
That her mind had found its old poise but with an utterly new view-point of life.
She was about to follow him when she saw him wheel swiftly, his pistol at a poise as his gaze fell upon something outside the ranchhouse.
Let traditional teachers beware how they venture to shift the moral law from its immutable basis in the will of God to a precarious poise on the selfish hope and fear of man.
However, we were distracted by the arrival of Tish, who came in with her customary poise and unrolled her dinner napkin with a thoughtful air.
When there is the right relation existing between the breath and the vocal instrument, when there is the proper poise and balance of parts, no such effort is necessary.
A certain confidence in her own charms gives a sensibly reared young woman a poise and self-possession which is to be desired.
Yet there is a sure key to preserving the poise between the two.
If we neglect our physical poise we pull down our mental poise, likewise our spiritual poise.
Poise has everything to do with personality, therefore the physical structure must come in for its share of proper attention.
Hurriedly, because for the moment her poise had fled from her and she knew that he must note the high colour in her cheeks.
Many did not realise his brilliancy, because he had such poise of character, such even methods.
For example, we always looked for one at the lower corner of a big rock, very close to it, where he could poise himself easily on the edge of the strong downward stream.
And I, myself, shall ordain that the god shall poise a thunderbolt in his hand.
She will detect instantly a weak spot in a sentence or a paragraph and never fail to suggest the exact word or phrase needed to give it poise and strength.
In such a school, a naturally ardent, impulsive temperament does not acquire judicial poise and gravity.

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