Handful #7 answer

The seven tiles

A₁C₃N₁R₁F₄E₁U₂

The best three words: 54 points

1. FURNACE 28 points
2. FACER 13 points
3. FARCE 13 points

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

Other high scorers

FRANC 13FEUAR 12FURAN 12FRENA 11CANER 10

There were 56 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.