Handful #16 answer

The seven tiles

B₄N₁T₁U₂A₁Q₈E₁

The best three words: 65 points

1. BANQUET 33 points
2. BUTANE 16 points
3. QUANT 16 points

The seven-letter word using every tile was BANQUET, which earns the 15-point length bonus on top of its tile values.

Other high scorers

QUEAN 16BEAUT 12QUA 11AEQ 10ABUT 9

There were 51 valid words of three letters or more in these tiles. A word scores the sum of its tile values plus a length bonus (4 letters +1, 5 letters +3, 6 letters +6, 7 letters +15), so one long word usually beats several short ones.