Yes, snakes is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

2. Form a snake-like pattern

3. Move along a winding path

Noun

1. Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

2. A deceitful or treacherous person

3. A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

4. A long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

5. Something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake