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CELLULOID

9 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What CELLULOID Means

  1. noun: highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics
  2. noun: a medium that disseminates moving pictures“theater pieces transferred to celluloid”
  3. adjective: artificial as if portrayed in a film“a novel with flat celluloid characters”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CELLULOID is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 E1 L1 L1 U1 L1 O1 I1 D2.

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