Contrivance is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.
You can make 899 anagrams from letters in contrivance (acceinnortv).
First recorded in 1620-30; contrive + -ance
It was by his contrivance the girl had been sent from India.
contrivance—that most belauded phenomenon in Nature's craft—was everywhere.
Please, however, to note the contrivance which I adopt whenever I am in a difficulty of this sort.
Then he began to experiment, with some rude apparatus of his own contrivance.
This expedition up the mountain was entirely of his contrivance.
The contrivance, if a contrivance, to get me away, so insolently mean!
And by what like contrivance would you have me catch my lovers?
The endless succession of quotation marks is its own contrivance, a scrim between Shields and the world.
In its present form it is the offspring of the art and contrivance of man.
And so comes now a contrivance for holding the spindle in this position.