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Yes. The word pulpit is a Scrabble US word. The word pulpit is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

PULPIT,

5-letter words (4 found)

PIPUL,PUPIL,TULIP,UPLIT,

4-letter words (5 found)

LITU,LUIT,PTUI,PULI,PULP,

3-letter words (13 found)

LIP,LIT,PIP,PIT,PIU,PLU,PUL,PUP,PUT,TIL,TIP,TUI,TUP,

2-letter words (6 found)

IT,LI,PI,TI,UP,UT,

You can make 29 words from pulpit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pulpit

pulpit

Etymology

From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpʊlpɪt/, /ˈpʌlpɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpʊlpɪt/, /ˈpʌlpɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ʊlpɪt, -ʌlpɪt
  • Hyphenation: pul‧pit

Noun

pulpit (plural pulpits)

  1. A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
  2. Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.
  3. A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
  4. (nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as a stern pulpit; other texts use the term pushpit.
  5. A bow platform for harpooning.
  6. (UK military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit.

Synonyms

  • (place or occasion for public speaking): soap box, tribune
  • (dated British slang for cockpit): office; see also cockpit

Derived terms

  • bully pulpit
  • Jack-in-the-pulpit
  • parson-in-the-pulpit
  • pulpital
  • wayside pulpit

Related terms

  • ambo

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • pulpet, pollepyt, pullpite, polepitt, pulpitte, pulpytt, pulpette, pulpite

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulpitum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpulpit/

Noun

pulpit

  1. A pulpit (podium for religious oratory)
  2. A podium for non-religious oratory.
  3. (rare) A seat in a church for royalty.

Descendants

  • English: pulpit
  • Scots: poopit, poupit

References

  • “pulpit, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-18.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pult.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpul.pit/
  • Rhymes: -ulpit
  • Syllabification: pul‧pit

Noun

pulpit m inan (diminutive pulpicik)

  1. (computing) desktop (the main graphical user interface of an operating system)
  2. pulpit, lectern

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pulpit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pulpit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Source: wiktionary.org