Scrabble and Words with Friends

• CONTRIVANCE is a valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• CONTRIVANCE is a valid Words with Friends word worth 23 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• CONTRIVANCE is a 11 letter word containing the letters a, c, c, e, i, n, n, o, r, t, v.

Definitions

• contrivance

  noun a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

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• contrivance

  noun the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
  his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem

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• contrivance

  noun an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
  his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track

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• contrivance

  noun an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
  the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable

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• contrivance

  noun any improvised arrangement for temporary use

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• contrivance

  noun the act of devising something

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• Lookup CONTRIVANCE using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

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Words that sound like 'contrivance'

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