Jointures is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 542 anagrams from letters in jointures (eijnorstu).
1325-75; Middle English Old French Latin junctūra, equivalent to junct- (see joint) + -ūra -ure
"You will do me the favour, mother, to accept of this addition to your jointure," said he.
She was an Irish peer's widow, with a jointure of L2000 a year.
And I am confident he will make my jointure every thing, and more than every thing, I could desire.
As to any provision for her, it must have taken the form of a settlement, a jointure, or a dower.
The Castle of Montargis is my jointure; at Orleans there is no house.
"But if my Lady Rackrent dies, there's an end of all jointure," says Jason.
I began to be of the same opinion;—but then there was the jointure.
To Katharine, his wife, if she claimed no jointure, an annuity of £13 6s.
The likelihood is, that your mother's jointure will be the utmost we can save from the wreck.
So skillfully is this done that it is impossible to detect the lines of jointure.