curie
NOUN
/kjʊri/
5 LETTERS · 2 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH C
curie is a valid 5-letter word worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
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C3U1R1I1E1
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =7 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 14TRIPLE WORD → 21
MEANING
What does curie mean?
NOUN · 3 SENSES
1
A unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second.
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2
French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906).
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3
French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934).
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