Definition of selections

"selections" in the noun sense

1. choice, selection, option, pick

the act of choosing or selecting

"your choice of colors was unfortunate"

"you can take your pick"

2. selection

an assortment of things from which a choice can be made

"the store carried a large selection of shoes"

3. choice, pick, selection

the person or thing chosen or selected

"he was my pick for mayor"

4. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection

a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

5. excerpt, excerption, extract, selection

a passage selected from a larger work

"he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for selections

Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of nature, - takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz. the mind and the soul of man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

selections in Scrabble®

The word selections 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: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters selections:

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (45 words)

cenotes, cession, clients, closest, closets, coesite, consist, cosiest, cosines, enclose, enlists, entices, iceless, incests, insects, insoles, lection, lenites, lesions, license, lioness, lionets, listens, nestles, netless, nosiest, notices, octenes, oecists, osselet, ossicle, section, seitens, selects, sestine, silence, silents, stencil, stenose, tensile, tieless, tinsels, tocsins, toeless, tonsils

 

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

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(117)
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ICELESS
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LICENSE
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CLIENTS
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STENCIL
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selections in Words With Friends™

The word selections 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: 15

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

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (45 words)

cenotes, cession, clients, closest, closets, coesite, consist, cosiest, cosines, enclose, enlists, entices, iceless, incests, insects, insoles, lection, lenites, lesions, license, lioness, lionets, listens, nestles, netless, nosiest, notices, octenes, oecists, osselet, ossicle, section, seitens, selects, sestine, silence, silents, stencil, stenose, tensile, tieless, tinsels, tocsins, toeless, tonsils

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word selections

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LECTION
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(104 = 69 + 35)
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ICELESS
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(102)
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(102)
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CLIENTS
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Words within the letters of selections

2 letter words in selections (10 words)

9 letter words in selections (4 words)

10 letter words in selections (1 word)

selections + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence selections

Words that start with selections (1 word)

Words with selections in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving selections

Shorter words in selections

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on ion lection election elections

on ion ions lections elections

on ion lection lections elections

el elect election selection

on ion lection election selection

el elect select selection

Longer words containing selections

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nonselections

photoselections

reselections preselections

unselections