Refrain is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 135 anagrams from letters in refrain (aefinrr).
1300-50; Middle English refreinen Old French refrener Latin refrēnāre to bridle, equivalent to re- re- + frēn(um) bridle + -āre infinitive suffix
Or “you give us Keystone, and we may refrain from throwing the world financial markets into turmoil.”
Texas Senator Ted Cruz wove a refrain into his speech that “morning is coming.”
These mince pies may be eaten by persons who refrain from meat in Lent.
I could not refrain from whispering, "Don't cry—I am alive."
I will refrain from going there—although, I must say, I am fighting a powerful gut feeling.
I am free to resume my interrupted flight of fancy, but I refrain.
Notwithstanding her firm determination to forget him, she could not refrain from questioning them about him.
It offered to refrain from new sanctions only if the Kremlin controlled the rebels.
However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
He could not refrain from showing his satisfaction with Evelyn.