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Is distend a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word distend is a Scrabble US word. The word distend is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is distend a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word distend is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

D2I1S1T1E1N1D2

Is distend a Words With Friends word?

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7-letter words (1 found)

DISTEND,

6-letter words (6 found)

DINTED,IDENTS,SINDED,SNIDED,TEINDS,TINDED,

5-letter words (37 found)

DEIDS,DEIST,DENIS,DENTS,DIDST,DIETS,DINED,DINES,DINTS,DITED,DITES,EDITS,IDENT,INSET,NEIST,NIDED,NIDES,NITES,SDEIN,SENTI,SIDED,SIENT,SINED,SITED,SNIDE,STEDD,STEIN,STEND,STIED,TEIND,TEINS,TENDS,TIDED,TIDES,TINDS,TINED,TINES,

4-letter words (49 found)

DEID,DENI,DENS,DENT,DESI,DIED,DIES,DIET,DINE,DINS,DINT,DITE,DITS,EDIT,ENDS,ENTS,IDES,NEDS,NEST,NETS,NIDE,NIDS,NIED,NIES,NITE,NITS,SEND,SENT,SIDE,SIEN,SIND,SINE,SITE,SNED,SNIT,STED,STEN,STIE,TEDS,TEIN,TEND,TENS,TIDE,TIDS,TIED,TIES,TIND,TINE,TINS,

3-letter words (34 found)

DEI,DEN,DID,DIE,DIN,DIS,DIT,EDS,END,ENS,EST,IDE,IDS,INS,ITS,NED,NET,NID,NIE,NIS,NIT,SED,SEI,SEN,SET,SIN,SIT,TED,TEN,TES,TID,TIE,TIN,TIS,

2-letter words (15 found)

DE,DI,ED,EN,ES,ET,ID,IN,IS,IT,NE,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 143 words from distend according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of distend

distend

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distendō.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈstɛnd/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

distend (third-person singular simple present distends, present participle distending, simple past and past participle distended)

  1. (intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
  2. (transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
    • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
      I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all my old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications. These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.
  3. (transitive) To cause to swell.
  4. (biology) To cause gravidity.

Derived terms

  • distensible
  • distensive

Translations

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “distend”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

  • destin'd

French

Pronunciation

Verb

distend

  1. third-person singular present indicative of distendre

Source: wiktionary.org