Yes, balance is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Bring into balance or equilibrium

2. Compute credits and debits of an account

3. Hold or carry in equilibrium

4. Be in equilibrium

Noun

1. A state of equilibrium

2. Equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

3. Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)

4. Equality of distribution

5. Something left after other parts have been taken away

6. The difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

7. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra

8. The seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22

9. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

10. A weight that balances another weight

11. A wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat

12. A scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity