MOTIVE
Here are the details, including the meaning, point value, and more about the Scrabble word MOTIVE. Below
motive is worth 13 points in the game of Scrabble
Definitions for the word, motive
(a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
(n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
(n.) That which moves; a mover.
(n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.
(n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.
(v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.