association
association is a valid 11-letter word worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
What does association mean?
A social or business relationship.
“many close associations with England”
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.
“conditioning is a form of learning by association”
A formal organization of people or groups of people.
A relation resulting from interaction or dependence.
“flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear”
“the host is not always injured by association with a parasite”
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding.
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species.
The act of consorting with or joining with others.
“you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association”
The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination.
“his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break”