Definition of scientific

"scientific" in the adjective sense

1. scientific

of or relating to the practice of science

"scientific journals"

2. scientific

conforming with the principles or methods used in science

"a scientific approach"

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Quotations for scientific

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. [ Emerson ]

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Why should not a scientific convention harmonize the letters of the alphabet with the sounds of the languages? [ J. A. Weisse ]

There is no such thing as good influence. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Good resolutions are a useless attempt to interfere with scientific laws; their origin pure vanity, their results absolutely nil. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. [ Horace Mann ]

Each department of knowledge passes in succession through three different theoretic stages: the theologic stage, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; the scientific, or positive. [ A. Comte ]

Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts men on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes a pleasure of duty. [ Bishop Doane ]

Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct - that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.

scientific in Scrabble®

The word scientific 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: 17

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters scientific:

SCIENTIFIC
(162)
SCIENTIFIC
(162)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

incites, infects

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word scientific

SCIENTIFIC
(162)
SCIENTIFIC
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SCIENTIFIC
(108)
SCIENTIFIC
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SCIENTIFIC
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In scientific

SCIENTIFIC
(162)
SCIENTIFIC
(162)
SCIENTIFIC
(108)
SCIENTIFIC
(108)
INFECTS
(98 = 48 + 50)
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(98 = 48 + 50)
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INCITES
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INCITES
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INFECTS
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INFECTS
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INCITES
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SCIENTIFIC
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INFECTS
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INFECTS
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SCIENTIFIC
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INCITES
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SCIENTIFIC
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SCIENTIFIC
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(27)
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(27)
FINIS
(27)

scientific in Words With Friends™

The word scientific 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: 20

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters scientific:

SCIENTIFIC
(234)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

incites, infects

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word scientific

SCIENTIFIC
(234)
SCIENTIFIC
(216)
SCIENTIFIC
(132)
SCIENTIFIC
(132)
SCIENTIFIC
(96)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In scientific

SCIENTIFIC
(234)
SCIENTIFIC
(216)
SCIENTIFIC
(132)
SCIENTIFIC
(132)
INFECTS
(107 = 72 + 35)
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(107 = 72 + 35)
INCITES
(98 = 63 + 35)
SCIENTIFIC
(96)
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(96)
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(96)
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SCIENTIFIC
(90)
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(90)
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(89 = 54 + 35)
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INCITES
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SCIENTIFIC
(84)
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(84)
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SCIENTIFIC
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SCIENTIFIC
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SCIENTIFIC
(72)
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INFECT
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(67 = 32 + 35)
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NICEST
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(66)
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INFECT
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SCIENTIFIC
(60)
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(60)
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(60)
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(60)
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(60)
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(60)
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CITIES
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INFECT
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CENTS
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CENT
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Words within the letters of scientific

2 letter words in scientific (6 words)

3 letter words in scientific (20 words)

5 letter words in scientific (11 words)

7 letter words in scientific (2 words)

8 letter words in scientific (1 word)

10 letter words in scientific (1 word)

scientific + 2 blanks (1 word)

Word Growth involving scientific

Shorter words in scientific

en

if

Longer words containing scientific

bioscientific

geoscientific geoscientifical geoscientifically

nonscientific nonscientifically

prescientific

pseudoscientific pseudoscientifically

scientifically geoscientifically

scientifically nonscientifically

scientifically pseudoscientifically

scientifically unscientifically

scientificogeographical

socioscientific

unscientific unscientifically

unscientific unscientificness