Handful #3 answer

The seven tiles

E₁I₁W₄V₅T₁S₁A₁

The best three words: 67 points

1. WAVIEST 29 points
2. SWIVET 19 points
3. WAIVES 19 points

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

Other high scorers

VIEWS 15WAIVE 15WAVES 15WIVES 15STAVE 12

There were 76 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.