synthetic
synthetic is a valid 9-letter word worth 17 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
What does synthetic mean?
Not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially.
“synthetic leather”
Artificial as if portrayed in a film.
Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis.
“limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology”
Of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts.
“`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition”
Not genuine or natural.
“counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic”
Systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words.
A compound made artificially by chemical reactions.