understanding

1. Characterized by or having comprehension, good sense, or discernment.

2. Compassionate; sympathetic.

3. Endowed with understanding .

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1. A compact implicit between two or more people or groups.

2. A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy.

3. A reconciliation of differences; a state of agreement: They finally reached an understanding.

4. Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion.

5. The faculty by which one understands; intelligence. See Synonyms at reason.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
understanding	16	Scrabble

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nastier	7
natured	8
natures	7
nearing	8
nesting	8
nidated	9
nidates	8
nidgets	9
nudgers	9
nursing	8
nutrias	7
nutsier	7
raddest	9
radding	10
randies	8
ranting	8
ratines	7
ratings	8
reading	9
reagins	8
redding	10
regains	8
reginas	8
regnant	8
rending	9
rennins	7
renting	8
residua	8
resting	8
retains	7
retinas	7
retsina	7
reusing	8
ringent	8
ruddies	9
ruinate	7
running	8
rusting	8
sainted	8
sandier	8
sanding	9
sardine	8
satined	8
saunter	7
seagirt	8
searing	8
seating	8
sending	9
seringa	8
sinuate	7
snaring	8
stagier	8
staider	8
stained	8
stainer	7
stander	8
stanged	9
stanine	7
staning	8
staring	8
stearin	7
stinger	8
strange	8
studdie	9
studied	9
studier	8
stunned	8
stunner	7
sueding	9
sugared	9
sunnier	7
sunning	8
tagines	8
tangier	8
tanners	7
tanning	8
tannins	7
tardies	8
taurine	7
tearing	8
teasing	8
tedding	10
tending	9
tensing	8
tinders	8
tinners	7
tirades	8
trading	9
trained	8
trannie	7
triaged	9
triages	8
triunes	7
trudged	10
trudgen	9
trudges	9
trueing	8
tundras	8
tunings	8
tunnage	8
tunnies	7
tunning	8
turdine	8
turning	8
unaided	9
unaired	8
undated	9
undines	8
undrest	8
undried	9
ungated	9
ungirds	9
unitage	8
unitard	8
uniters	7
unrated	8
unrisen	7
unsated	8
untired	8
untread	8
untried	8
uranide	8
uranite	7
urinate	7
angsted	9
stanned	8

8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
aginners	9
aneurins	8
angriest	9
angstier	9
antidrug	10
antigens	9
astringe	9
audients	9
dandiest	10
darndest	10
darnings	10
daunders	10
daunters	9
daunting	10
denarius	9
denuding	11
deraigns	10
derating	10
detrains	9
detuning	10
disrated	10
dragnets	10
dreading	11
dungiest	10
dunnages	10
dunnites	9
durndest	10
earnings	9
enduring	10
engrains	9
ensuring	9
entrains	8
ganister	9
gantries	9
gaudiest	10
gentians	9
gradient	10
gradines	10
grandest	10
granites	9
grannies	9
guanines	9
gunneras	9
indurate	9
ingrates	9
insnared	9
insurant	8
intruded	10
intrudes	9
inturned	9
inundant	9
inundate	9
radiused	10
randiest	9
rangiest	9
rantings	9
readding	11
readings	10
redating	10
retuning	9
ruddiest	10
ruinated	9
ruinates	8
runniest	8
runnings	9
sanguine	9
sardined	10
sauteing	9
sedating	10
sinuated	9
snedding	11
standing	10
steading	10
strained	9
stranded	10
stridden	10
stringed	10
studding	11
stunning	9
sturdied	10
tannings	9
taurines	8
tenuring	9
tradings	10
trannies	8
transude	9
treading	10
trending	10
trudgens	10
tunnages	9
turnings	9
undaring	10
unending	10
ungirded	11
ungraded	11
unitages	9
unitards	9
unraised	9
unridden	10
unrinsed	9
unsigned	10
unstring	9
untanned	9
untinged	10
untreads	9
uranides	9
uranites	8
urinated	9
urinates	8
stanning	9

9 Letters	Scrabble® Points
astringed	11
dandering	12
desanding	12
detruding	12
ensnaring	10
gannister	10
gauntries	10
gradients	11
indurated	11
indurates	10
insurgent	10
integrand	11
inundated	11
inundates	10
redundant	11
saddening	12
saturnine	9
signature	10
stranding	11
sundering	11
suntanned	10
transuded	11
undrained	11
unseating	10
unstained	10
untrained	10

10 Letters	Scrabble® Points
daundering	13
denaturing	12
denudating	13
integrands	12
sauntering	11
transuding	12
understand	12
unstrained	11
untreading	12

13 Letters	Scrabble® Points
understanding	16