cantankerous

1. Difficult to handle: "had to use liquid helium, which is supercold, costly and cantankerous” ( Boston Globe).

2. Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable: disliked her cantankerous landlord.

3. Difficult or to deal with .

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
cantankerous	18	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
acerous	9
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retcons	9

8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
aeronaut	8
ancestor	10
araceous	10
caterans	10
centaurs	10
construe	10
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courants	10
crankest	14
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resonant	8
strucken	14
tonneaus	8
trounces	10
uncrates	10
unornate	8
unreason	8
untracks	14

9 Letters	Scrabble® Points
aeronauts	9
cankerous	15
courantes	11
courtesan	11
nectarous	11
nocturnes	11
nonskater	13
oceanauts	11
outrances	11

12 Letters	Scrabble® Points
cantankerous	18