Yes, stops is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Come to a halt, stop moving

2. Put an end to a state or an activity

3. Stop from happening or developing

4. Interrupt a trip

5. Cause to stop

6. Prevent completion

7. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

8. Seize on its way

9. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

10. Render unsuitable for passage

11. Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

Noun

1. A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

2. The event of something ending

3. The act of stopping something

4. A brief stay in the course of a journey

5. The state of inactivity following an interruption

6. A spot where something halts or pauses

7. A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

8. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

9. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

10. A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

11. A restraint that checks the motion of something

12. An obstruction in a pipe or tube