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CENTROMERE

10 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What CENTROMERE Means

  1. noun: a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape“the centromere is difficult to sequence”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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CENTROMERE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 E1 N1 T1 R1 O1 M3 E1 R1 E1.

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