Definition of purchasing

"purchasing" in the noun sense

1. buying, purchasing

the act of buying

"buying and selling fill their days"

"shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge"

"purchasing" in the verb sense

1. buy, purchase

obtain by purchase acquire by means of a financial transaction

"The family purchased a new car"

"The conglomerate acquired a new company"

"She buys for the big department store"

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purchasing in Scrabble®

The word purchasing 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 purchasing:

PURCHASING
(189)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (36 words)

airguns, anguish, arching, carping, cashing, causing, chagrin, chasing, cursing, cusping, garnish, graphic, gunship, hangups, harping, parings, parsing, pausing, phasing, pursing, pushing, rasping, rupiahs, rushing, saucing, scaring, shaping, sharing, spacing, sparing, spinach, unchair, ungrasp, unpairs, unparch, urchins

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word purchasing

PURCHASING
(189)
PURCHASING
(171)
PURCHASING
(126)
PURCHASING
(114)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In purchasing

PURCHASING
(189)
PURCHASING
(171)
PURCHASING
(126)
PURCHASING
(114)
GRAPHIC
(110 = 60 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(107 = 57 + 50)
UNPARCH
(106 = 56 + 50)
SPINACH
(106 = 56 + 50)
UNPARCH
(104 = 54 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(104 = 54 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(104 = 54 + 50)
SPINACH
(104 = 54 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(104 = 54 + 50)
ARCHING
(102 = 52 + 50)
PHASING
(102 = 52 + 50)
SHAPING
(102 = 52 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(102 = 52 + 50)
HANGUPS
(102 = 52 + 50)
CHASING
(102 = 52 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(102 = 52 + 50)
PUSHING
(102 = 52 + 50)
CASHING
(102 = 52 + 50)
HARPING
(102 = 52 + 50)
UNPARCH
(101 = 51 + 50)
CHASING
(101 = 51 + 50)
PHASING
(101 = 51 + 50)
ARCHING
(101 = 51 + 50)
UNPARCH
(101 = 51 + 50)
SPINACH
(101 = 51 + 50)
PUSHING
(101 = 51 + 50)
HANGUPS
(101 = 51 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(101 = 51 + 50)
SHAPING
(101 = 51 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(101 = 51 + 50)
ARCHING
(101 = 51 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(101 = 51 + 50)
PUSHING
(101 = 51 + 50)
HARPING
(101 = 51 + 50)
CASHING
(101 = 51 + 50)
CASHING
(101 = 51 + 50)
SPINACH
(101 = 51 + 50)
ARCHING
(98 = 48 + 50)
HANGUPS
(98 = 48 + 50)
PHASING
(98 = 48 + 50)
CARPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
URCHINS
(98 = 48 + 50)
URCHINS
(98 = 48 + 50)
RUPIAHS
(98 = 48 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(98 = 48 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(98 = 48 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(98 = 48 + 50)
HARPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(98 = 48 + 50)
CHASING
(98 = 48 + 50)
PUSHING
(98 = 48 + 50)
HARPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
SHAPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
SPACING
(98 = 48 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(98 = 48 + 50)
RUPIAHS
(98 = 48 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(98 = 48 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(98 = 48 + 50)
SHAPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
CASHING
(98 = 48 + 50)
URCHINS
(98 = 48 + 50)
CUSPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(98 = 48 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(96 = 46 + 50)
CUSPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
UNPARCH
(95 = 45 + 50)
CUSPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
SHARING
(95 = 45 + 50)
PHASING
(95 = 45 + 50)
SPINACH
(95 = 45 + 50)
SPACING
(95 = 45 + 50)
URCHINS
(95 = 45 + 50)
SPINACH
(95 = 45 + 50)
RUSHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
SPINACH
(95 = 45 + 50)
SPINACH
(95 = 45 + 50)
SPINACH
(95 = 45 + 50)
HARPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
PUSHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
UNPARCH
(95 = 45 + 50)
HANGUPS
(95 = 45 + 50)
RUSHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
SPACING
(95 = 45 + 50)
CHASING
(95 = 45 + 50)
SPACING
(95 = 45 + 50)
CUSPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
GARNISH
(95 = 45 + 50)
ARCHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
UNPARCH
(95 = 45 + 50)
UNPARCH
(95 = 45 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(95 = 45 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(95 = 45 + 50)
RUPIAHS
(95 = 45 + 50)
UNPARCH
(95 = 45 + 50)
CARPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(95 = 45 + 50)
CASHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
HANGUPS
(95 = 45 + 50)
CARPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(95 = 45 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(95 = 45 + 50)
CARPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
SHAPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
ANGUISH
(95 = 45 + 50)
GRAPHIC
(94 = 44 + 50)
GARNISH
(94 = 44 + 50)
ANGUISH
(94 = 44 + 50)
RUSHING
(94 = 44 + 50)
SHARING
(94 = 44 + 50)
CHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(92 = 42 + 50)
PUSHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(92 = 42 + 50)
HARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
ARCHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
HARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(92 = 42 + 50)
HARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SPACING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CASHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(92 = 42 + 50)
UNPARCH
(92 = 42 + 50)
CASHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CASHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
HARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CASHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(92 = 42 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SPINACH
(92 = 42 + 50)
HANGUPS
(92 = 42 + 50)
ARCHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(92 = 42 + 50)
CARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CUSPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(92 = 42 + 50)
ARCHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
HANGUPS
(92 = 42 + 50)
ARCHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PUSHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
CHAGRIN
(92 = 42 + 50)
PUSHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PUSHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
HANGUPS
(92 = 42 + 50)
HANGUPS
(92 = 42 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
GUNSHIP
(90 = 40 + 50)
UNPARCH
(90 = 40 + 50)
UNPARCH
(90 = 40 + 50)
PAUSING
(90 = 40 + 50)
SCARING
(90 = 40 + 50)
CURSING
(90 = 40 + 50)
SPINACH
(90 = 40 + 50)
SPINACH
(90 = 40 + 50)
RUPIAHS
(90 = 40 + 50)
RASPING
(90 = 40 + 50)
UNGRASP
(90 = 40 + 50)
PARSING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PURSING
(90 = 40 + 50)
CAUSING
(90 = 40 + 50)
SPARING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PARINGS
(90 = 40 + 50)
SAUCING
(90 = 40 + 50)
RASPING
(89 = 39 + 50)
CUSPING
(89 = 39 + 50)
RASPING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PARSING
(89 = 39 + 50)
ANGUISH
(89 = 39 + 50)
GARNISH
(89 = 39 + 50)
UNGRASP
(89 = 39 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(89 = 39 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(89 = 39 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(89 = 39 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(89 = 39 + 50)
UNCHAIR
(89 = 39 + 50)
PARINGS
(89 = 39 + 50)
PUSHING
(89 = 39 + 50)
ARCHING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PAUSING
(89 = 39 + 50)
CUSPING
(89 = 39 + 50)

purchasing in Words With Friends™

The word purchasing 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™ Play In The Letters purchasing:

PURCHASING
(288)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (36 words)

airguns, anguish, arching, carping, cashing, causing, chagrin, chasing, cursing, cusping, garnish, graphic, gunship, hangups, harping, parings, parsing, pausing, phasing, pursing, pushing, rasping, rupiahs, rushing, saucing, scaring, shaping, sharing, spacing, sparing, spinach, unchair, ungrasp, unpairs, unparch, urchins

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word purchasing

PURCHASING
(288)
PURCHASING
(270)
PURCHASING
(180)
PURCHASING
(144)
PURCHASING
(104)
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(102)
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(100)
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(96)
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(92)
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(25)
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(25)
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(25)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In purchasing

PURCHASING
(288)
PURCHASING
(270)
PURCHASING
(180)
PURCHASING
(144)
SPACING
(131 = 96 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(128 = 93 + 35)
HANGUPS
(125 = 90 + 35)
GUNSHIP
(125 = 90 + 35)
UNPARCH
(122 = 87 + 35)
CUSPING
(122 = 87 + 35)
CUSPING
(122 = 87 + 35)
SHAPING
(122 = 87 + 35)
SPINACH
(119 = 84 + 35)
CARPING
(119 = 84 + 35)
SPINACH
(119 = 84 + 35)
SPACING
(119 = 84 + 35)
SHAPING
(116 = 81 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(116 = 81 + 35)
UNPARCH
(116 = 81 + 35)
CHAGRIN
(116 = 81 + 35)
CUSPING
(116 = 81 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(116 = 81 + 35)
HARPING
(116 = 81 + 35)
CARPING
(113 = 78 + 35)
CAUSING
(113 = 78 + 35)
URCHINS
(113 = 78 + 35)
HANGUPS
(113 = 78 + 35)
PUSHING
(113 = 78 + 35)
CARPING
(113 = 78 + 35)
UNCHAIR
(113 = 78 + 35)
PUSHING
(113 = 78 + 35)
PAUSING
(113 = 78 + 35)
GUNSHIP
(113 = 78 + 35)
SAUCING
(113 = 78 + 35)
PUSHING
(113 = 78 + 35)
PHASING
(110 = 75 + 35)
CUSPING
(110 = 75 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(110 = 75 + 35)
ARCHING
(110 = 75 + 35)
UNPARCH
(110 = 75 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(110 = 75 + 35)
HARPING
(110 = 75 + 35)
CHAGRIN
(110 = 75 + 35)
CASHING
(110 = 75 + 35)
RASPING
(110 = 75 + 35)
UNPARCH
(110 = 75 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(110 = 75 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(110 = 75 + 35)
CASHING
(110 = 75 + 35)
CHASING
(110 = 75 + 35)
CUSPING
(110 = 75 + 35)
ARCHING
(110 = 75 + 35)
CUSPING
(110 = 75 + 35)
CUSPING
(110 = 75 + 35)
UNPAIRS
(107 = 72 + 35)
SAUCING
(107 = 72 + 35)
SPINACH
(107 = 72 + 35)
CURSING
(107 = 72 + 35)
SPACING
(107 = 72 + 35)
SPACING
(107 = 72 + 35)
SPINACH
(107 = 72 + 35)
CARPING
(107 = 72 + 35)
HANGUPS
(107 = 72 + 35)
UNGRASP
(107 = 72 + 35)
PUSHING
(107 = 72 + 35)
SPACING
(107 = 72 + 35)
CARPING
(107 = 72 + 35)
SPACING
(107 = 72 + 35)
CARPING
(107 = 72 + 35)
PURSING
(107 = 72 + 35)
CARPING
(107 = 72 + 35)
GUNSHIP
(107 = 72 + 35)
HANGUPS
(107 = 72 + 35)
UNCHAIR
(107 = 72 + 35)
URCHINS
(107 = 72 + 35)
SPINACH
(107 = 72 + 35)
PUSHING
(107 = 72 + 35)
UNGRASP
(107 = 72 + 35)
CHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
CUSPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
CHAGRIN
(104 = 69 + 35)
SHAPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HARPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
RUSHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PARINGS
(104 = 69 + 35)
SCARING
(104 = 69 + 35)
CHAGRIN
(104 = 69 + 35)
UNPARCH
(104 = 69 + 35)
CHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
CHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
SHAPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
UNPARCH
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HARPING
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SHAPING
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HARPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HARPING
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CASHING
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RUSHING
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CASHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
ARCHING
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PARSING
(104 = 69 + 35)
RASPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
RUPIAHS
(104 = 69 + 35)
CASHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
SPARING
(104 = 69 + 35)
ARCHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(104 = 69 + 35)
PURCHASING
(104)
CUSPING
(103 = 68 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(103 = 68 + 35)
UNPARCH
(103 = 68 + 35)
CUSPING
(103 = 68 + 35)
UNPARCH
(103 = 68 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(103 = 68 + 35)
GRAPHIC
(103 = 68 + 35)
UNPARCH
(103 = 68 + 35)
CUSPING
(103 = 68 + 35)
PURCHASING
(102)
CAUSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
SPINACH
(101 = 66 + 35)
PUSHING
(101 = 66 + 35)
SAUCING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PAUSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PURSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
GUNSHIP
(101 = 66 + 35)
HANGUPS
(101 = 66 + 35)
SAUCING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PUSHING
(101 = 66 + 35)
HANGUPS
(101 = 66 + 35)
UNCHAIR
(101 = 66 + 35)
GUNSHIP
(101 = 66 + 35)
SAUCING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PAUSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
CAUSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
UNGRASP
(101 = 66 + 35)
HANGUPS
(101 = 66 + 35)
HANGUPS
(101 = 66 + 35)
SPACING
(101 = 66 + 35)
CURSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
URCHINS
(101 = 66 + 35)
CURSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
CARPING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PUSHING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PURSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PURCHASING
(100)
HANGUPS
(99 = 64 + 35)
SPACING
(99 = 64 + 35)
SPINACH
(99 = 64 + 35)
CARPING
(99 = 64 + 35)
SPINACH
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PUSHING
(99 = 64 + 35)
PUSHING
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SPACING
(99 = 64 + 35)
GUNSHIP
(99 = 64 + 35)
HANGUPS
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CARPING
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GUNSHIP
(99 = 64 + 35)
CARPING
(99 = 64 + 35)
PUSHING
(99 = 64 + 35)
HANGUPS
(99 = 64 + 35)
SPINACH
(99 = 64 + 35)
SPACING
(99 = 64 + 35)
GUNSHIP
(99 = 64 + 35)
CHASING
(98 = 63 + 35)
RASPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
ANGUISH
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARSING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HARPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
ANGUISH
(98 = 63 + 35)
ANGUISH
(98 = 63 + 35)
UNPARCH
(98 = 63 + 35)
UNPARCH
(98 = 63 + 35)
SPARING
(98 = 63 + 35)
CASHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PHASING
(98 = 63 + 35)
RUSHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
CHASING
(98 = 63 + 35)
AIRGUNS
(98 = 63 + 35)
CUSPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
CASHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
CASHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SPARING
(98 = 63 + 35)
CHAGRIN
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARINGS
(98 = 63 + 35)
RASPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
CHAGRIN
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARINGS
(98 = 63 + 35)
CHAGRIN
(98 = 63 + 35)
SCARING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SHAPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PHASING
(98 = 63 + 35)
CHASING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARSING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SHAPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
ARCHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
CHAGRIN
(98 = 63 + 35)
SCARING
(98 = 63 + 35)

Words within the letters of purchasing

2 letter words in purchasing (17 words)

9 letter words in purchasing (1 word)

10 letter words in purchasing (1 word)

purchasing + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence purchasing

Words that start with purchasing (1 word)

Words with purchasing in them (1 word)

Words that end with purchasing (5 words)

Word Growth involving purchasing

Shorter words in purchasing

as has chasing

ha has chasing

in sin sing chasing

Longer words containing purchasing

copurchasing

overpurchasing

repurchasing prepurchasing