Stopgap is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 143 anagrams from letters in stopgap (agoppst).
First recorded in 1525-35; noun, adj. use of verb phrase stop a gap
Because Brownlee knows why I'm looking for a cure to replace the stopgap.
The stopgap was such that it must remain as it was; and every further effort was useless.
But he knew that they were only a stopgap, only a temporarily shoring of a constantly-eroding dam.
He has left millions of homeowners to fend for themselves, and even his health care plan is really only a stopgap measure.
His “strategists” have concocted a series of stopgap tactics.
As for Fattorosi of XPays, he sees the lawsuits as only a stopgap.
But even Joffe admits that a better radar and rapid reaction system is only a partial, stopgap solution.
In this his Christian neighbours liked him well, insomuch as he was a kind of stay or stopgap to the infidels.
She was going as a stopgap to speak at a large meeting to oblige Angelica.
It's a stopgap effort, just to keep things moving until Project Sea-Dredge starts functioning.