Scrabble and Words with Friends

• RESISTANCE is a valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• RESISTANCE is a valid Words with Friends word worth 14 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• RESISTANCE is a 10 letter word containing the letters a, c, e, e, i, n, r, s, s, t.

Definitions

• resistance

  noun the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
  he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens

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• resistance

  noun any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

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• resistance

  noun a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

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• resistance

  noun the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
  the enemy offered little resistance

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• resistance

  noun (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

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• resistance

  noun the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
  these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog

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• resistance

  noun a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

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• resistance

  noun the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

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• resistance

  noun (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

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• resistance

  noun an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

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• resistance

  noun group action in opposition to those in power

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