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CORTICOID

9 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What CORTICOID Means

  1. noun: a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response“adrenal cortical steroids are used to treat many different conditions”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CORTICOID is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 O1 R1 T1 I1 C3 O1 I1 D2.

Words Made From The Letters In CORTICOID

87 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

8 letter words (1)

7 letter words (1)

6 letter words (5)

5 letter words (10)

4 letter words (31)

3 letter words (28)

2 letter words (11)

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