“CUBBIES” is a valid word. — 13 points Scrabble

cubebsspicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes

cubesa hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
cubebspicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes
bices

cubsan awkward and inexperienced youth
cubea hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
cuesan actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
bubs
iceswater frozen in the solid state
bibstop part of an apron; covering the chest
bice
ebbsa gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
ecus
sice
bisea dry cold north wind in southeastern France
sibb

usethe act of using
icewater frozen in the solid state
busa vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
sueFrench writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
sec1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
suba large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
cuean actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
cuban awkward and inexperienced youth
bub
sicurge to attack someone
sei
bibtop part of an apron; covering the chest
ebba gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
bis
cisan alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
ecu
siba person's brother or sister

ishave the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
bea light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
usNorth American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
sia tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
esa radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
bia heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals

CUBBIES