Staunches is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 534 anagrams from letters in staunches (acehnsstu).
He eased his pain, staunched the black blood from the wound, and gave him new strength.
I have staunched and bandaged the wound, and you will be better soon.
The leak was staunched, but nothing could be more precarious.
So—whew—the bleeding seems finally to have been staunched, three months after BP stabbed its hole in the bottom of the sea.
President has staunched the bleeding, but didn't blow anything away.
Then Joseph bled at the nose, so that he might not by no means be staunched.
This she strapped down so tightly that, for the time at least, the bleeding was staunched.
A bullet has entered his forehead, but the blood is staunched by the dust of the road.
When he had staunched the blood, Mrs. Dodd sank half fainting in her chair.
It had staunched the life-blood of its wearer upon the 13th.
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