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APOPTOSIS

9 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What APOPTOSIS Means

  1. noun: a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

APOPTOSIS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 P3 O1 P3 T1 O1 S1 I1 S1.

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