cental
Plural: centals
Noun
- A unit of weight equal to 100 pounds, primarily in British usage.
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
- A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.
Adj
- Relating to a hundred.
- Pertaining to a cent (unit of currency, typically worth 1/100 of the base unit of currency).
Examples
- cental coins
- He knew that finding CENTAL would be a heavy-scoring word on his Scrabble board.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal.
Synonyms
centner, cwt, hundredweight, quintal, short hundredweight
Scrabble Score: 8
cental: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcental: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cental: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
cental: valid Words With Friends Word