Obviates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 336 anagrams from letters in obviates (abeiostv).
1590-1600; Latin obviātus, past participle of obviāre to act contrary to, derivative of obvius; see obvious, -ate
This is most obvious when expensive forms of trash are forced to backflip until they obviate their standard uses. To obviate this a screen has been placed on the landward side of the lantern. We have, perhaps, incurred the very hazard we hoped to obviate. But shall we, to obviate these evils, completely transpose their conditions? Mofaz in the government doesn't obviate the enormous technical obstacles to an Israeli strike. I fear that result, and hope that you will try to obviate it. The Professor, with a smile, thinks that he can obviate this unpleasantness. Will you allow me to arrange your shirt so as to obviate it? She then, to obviate that objection, lent me a black domino. But that does not obviate the U.S. from its statutory obligation to cancel its $1.3 billion aid to the Egyptian military.Examples for obviates