Motives is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 179 anagrams from letters in motives (eimostv).
1325-75; (adj.) Middle English (Middle French motif) Medieval Latin mōtīvus serving to move, equivalent to Latin mōt(us) (past participle of movēre to move) + -īvus <
The occurrences are, to all appearance, motiveless as the events in a feverish dream.
There it was—an open hostility with more power behind it than Deklay's motiveless disapproval had carried.
She had moods of motiveless irritation, and of unreasonable indulgence.
I never loved but one woman, and her I outraged by a profligate's motiveless folly.
To its existence is often to be traced the motiveless crimes of the young.'
To me it seems basic to the getting rid of fear to know that our trials, of whatever nature, are not motiveless.
Here they swayed to and fro, hour after hour, motiveless, awaiting the progress of events.
Iago's soliloquy, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!
This duplicity was not motiveless, although, on a cursory view, its purpose may not be apparent.
Nor is it a caprice, that is, motiveless volition, or will as a motor.