Scrabble & Words with friends points
- pounds is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
- pounds is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
- pounds is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 12
Definition of pounds
- move heavily or clumsily (verb)
Synonyms
- lumber
- partition off into compartments (verb)
Examples
- The locks pound the water of the canal
Synonyms
- pound off
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument (verb)
Examples
- the salesman pounded the door knocker
Synonyms
- poke
- thump
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents (noun)
Synonyms
- cypriot pound
- move rhythmically (verb)
Synonyms
- beat
- thump
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) (noun)
Synonyms
- pound sign
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) (noun)
Examples
- the pounding of feet on the hallway
Synonyms
- hammer
- hammering
- pounding
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs (noun)
Examples
- unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound
Synonyms
- dog pound
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters (noun)
Synonyms
- syrian pound
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec (noun)
Synonyms
- lbf.
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence (noun)
Synonyms
- british pound
- british pound sterling
- pound sterling
- quid
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence (noun)
Synonyms
- irish pound
- irish punt
- punt
- 16 ounces avoirdupois (noun)
Examples
- he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds
Synonyms
- lb
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters (noun)
Synonyms
- lebanese pound
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters (noun)
Synonyms
- sudanese pound
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits (verb)
Examples
- The prisoners are safely pounded
Synonyms
- pound up
- place or shut up in a pound (verb)
Examples
- pound the cows so they don't stray
Synonyms
- impound
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters (noun)
Synonyms
- egyptian pound
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact (verb)
Examples
- pound on the door
Synonyms
- ram
- ram down
- United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972) (noun)
Synonyms
- ezra loomis pound
- ezra pound
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy (noun)
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle (verb)
Examples
- pound the roots with a heavy flat stone
See definition of pounds in Merriam Webster