Yes, field is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

2. Play as a fielder

3. Answer adequately or successfully

4. Select (a team or individual player) for a game

Noun

1. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

2. A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

3. Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

4. A branch of knowledge

5. The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

6. A particular kind of commercial enterprise

7. A particular environment or walk of life

8. A piece of land prepared for playing a game

9. Extensive tract of level open land

10. (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1

11. A region in which active military operations are in progress

12. All of the horses in a particular horse race

13. All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

14. A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

15. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

16. The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

17. A place where planes take off and land