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Yes. The word piston is a Scrabble US word. The word piston is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (8 found)

PINOTS,PINTOS,PISTON,PITONS,POINTS,POSTIN,POTINS,SPINTO,

5-letter words (14 found)

INSPO,OINTS,OPSIN,PINOT,PINTO,PINTS,PIONS,PITON,POINT,PONTS,POSIT,POTIN,PSION,TOPIS,

4-letter words (29 found)

INTO,IONS,NIPS,NITS,OINT,ONST,OPTS,PINS,PINT,PION,PISO,PITS,POIS,PONS,PONT,POST,POTS,SNIP,SNIT,SNOT,SPIN,SPIT,SPOT,STOP,TINS,TIPS,TONS,TOPI,TOPS,

3-letter words (33 found)

INS,ION,IOS,ISO,ITS,NIP,NIS,NIT,NOS,NOT,OIS,ONS,OPS,OPT,PIN,PIS,PIT,POI,POS,POT,PSI,PST,SIN,SIP,SIT,SON,SOP,SOT,TIN,TIP,TIS,TON,TOP,

2-letter words (16 found)

IN,IO,IS,IT,NO,OI,ON,OP,OS,PI,PO,SI,SO,ST,TI,TO,

You can make 100 words from piston according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of piston

piston

Etymology

From French piston.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pĭs'tən, IPA(key): /ˈpɪstən/
  • Rhymes: -ɪstən

Noun

piston (plural pistons)

  1. A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
  2. (music) A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

piston (third-person singular simple present pistons, present participle pistoning, simple past and past participle pistoned)

  1. (intransitive) To move up and down or in and out like a piston.

Anagrams

  • Pintos, Points, Tipson, instop, opts in, pinots, pintos, pitons, points, posnit, postin

Finnish

Noun

piston

  1. genitive singular of pisto

French

Etymology

16th century in the sense of "pestle", borrowed from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pistāre, from the root pīnsō (“to crush”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pis.tɔ̃/

Noun

piston m (plural pistons)

  1. piston
  2. (colloquial) contact, connection

Derived terms

  • pistonner

Descendants

  • → Catalan: pistó
  • → English: piston
  • → Greek: πιστόνι (pistóni)
  • → Romanian: piston

Further reading

  • “piston”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • pitons, points

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch piston, from French piston, from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pistāre, from the root pīnsō (“I crush”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɪstɔn]
  • Hyphenation: pis‧ton

Noun

piston (first-person possessive pistonku, second-person possessive pistonmu, third-person possessive pistonnya)

  1. (engineering) piston.
    Synonyms: torak, seher

Further reading

  • “piston” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French piston.

Noun

piston n (plural pistoane)

  1. piston
  2. (music) piston

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

From English piston.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪsdɔn/, [ˈpɪstɔn]
  • Rhymes: -ɪsdɔn

Noun

piston m (plural pistonau or pistynau)

  1. piston
    Synonyms: pillffon, ceuffon

References

  1. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “piston”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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