Definition of prescription

"prescription" in the noun sense

1. prescription

directions prescribed beforehand the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions

"I tried to follow her prescription for success"

2. prescription drug, prescription, prescription medicine, ethical drug

a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

"he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"

3. prescription

written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

4. prescription

written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient

"prescription" in the adjective sense

1. prescription

available only with a doctor's written prescription

"a prescription drug"

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Quotations for prescription

Vice must never plead prescription. [ Proverb ]

It is silliness to live when to live is a torment; and then we have a prescription to die when death is our physician. [ William Shakespeare ]

Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct prescription. [ Whately ]

An inoffensive pleasantness is a good quality to improve friendship. It enlivens conversation, relieves melancholy, and conveys advice with better success than naked reprehension. This gilding the pill reconciles the palate to the prescription, without weakening the force of the ingredients, and he who can cure by recreation, and make pleasure the vehicle of health, is a doctor in good earnest. [ R. Hall ]

prescription in Scrabble®

The word prescription is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 18

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters prescription:

PRESCRIPTION
(198)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (88 words)

cistern, citrine, citrons, coiners, copiers, coppers, corners, cornets, cornier, cretins, crispen, crisper, cronies, cropper, crosier, eosinic, erotics, iconist, incisor, inciter, incites, inosite, inspect, inspire, ioniser, irenics, ironers, ironies, nepotic, nippers, nippier, noisier, norites, notices, orients, pectins, picrite, pincers, pitiers, poetics, pointer, porcine, porters, postern, potpies, presort, pricers, pricier, princes, printer, pronest, propine, prosper, protein, psionic, pterins, recoins, rectors, repoint, reports, reprint, rioters, rippers, ripstop, roister, ropiest, scorner, section, sericin, snipper, snippet, snorter, soppier, spicier, spinier, stonier, stopper, striper, tiepins, tippers, tippier, tipsier, toppers, topspin, triceps, triones, tripper, tropics

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word prescription

PRESCRIPTION
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In prescription

PRESCRIPTION
(198)
PRESCRIPTION
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(132)
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PRINCES
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PROPINE
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RIPSTOP
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CRISPER
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PROPINE
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SOPPIER
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CRISPEN
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PINCERS
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prescription in Words With Friends™

The word prescription is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 22

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters prescription:

PRESCRIPTION
(288)
PRESCRIPTION
(288)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (88 words)

cistern, citrine, citrons, coiners, copiers, coppers, corners, cornets, cornier, cretins, crispen, crisper, cronies, cropper, crosier, eosinic, erotics, iconist, incisor, inciter, incites, inosite, inspect, inspire, ioniser, irenics, ironers, ironies, nepotic, nippers, nippier, noisier, norites, notices, orients, pectins, picrite, pincers, pitiers, poetics, pointer, porcine, porters, postern, potpies, presort, pricers, pricier, princes, printer, pronest, propine, prosper, protein, psionic, pterins, recoins, rectors, repoint, reports, reprint, rioters, rippers, ripstop, roister, ropiest, scorner, section, sericin, snipper, snippet, snorter, soppier, spicier, spinier, stonier, stopper, striper, tiepins, tippers, tippier, tipsier, toppers, topspin, triceps, triones, tripper, tropics

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word prescription

PRESCRIPTION
(288)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In prescription

PRESCRIPTION
(288)
PRESCRIPTION
(288)
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(234)
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(234)
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(192)
PRESCRIPTION
(168)
COPPERS
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PECTINS
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TRICEPS
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COPIERS
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COPPERS
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NIPPIER
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CROPPER
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TOPSPIN
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PORCINE
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SNIPPET
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PINCERS
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PRESCRIPTION
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Words within the letters of prescription

2 letter words in prescription (13 words)

10 letter words in prescription (3 words)

12 letter words in prescription (1 word)

prescription + 1 blank (1 word)

prescription + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence prescription

Words that start with prescription (2 words)

Words with prescription in them (3 words)

Words that end with prescription (3 words)

Word Growth involving prescription

Shorter words in prescription

on ion

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Longer words containing prescription

nonprescription nonprescriptions

overprescription overprescriptions

prescriptions nonprescriptions

prescriptions overprescriptions