Alighting is valid Scrabble Word

Is alighting a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is alighting valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for ALIGHTING in dictionary:

VERB:

ALIGHT, to dismount
(of a bird) descend from the air and settle
descend from a train, bus, or other form of transport
shining brightly
on fire; burning

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to come down from something

Words related to ALIGHTING

alight10 alighted13 alights11 alit4

How to use ALIGHTING in a sentence

It is better than alighting and wasting a day in a small town.
Alighting, I inquire if there is any conveyance for Beulah, and there is, a wagon and a white horse.
It went about like a vulture after food, alighting where it found prey to suit its fancy.
CHAPTER XXXV GEOFFREY ANNERSLEY ARRIVES There were few passengers alighting from the south bound train from Canada.
When they came among the colored people of Bath, it was like a hawk alighting among a flock of chickens at noon-day.
Jefferson and Calvert, finally alighting, forced a passage through the crowd for Madame de St.
He refused steadfastly to play, and, having learned the penalty of alighting below the line, very carefully avoided the unsafe territory.
It was suggested that she might have dropped it in alighting from the carriage.
The bracken, very young, on an opposite slope, was like a cloud of green wings alighting.
On alighting from the coach and dining, I determined to walk home, as it was a fine frosty night.

How, then, was she disappointed when, alighting for a moment at Rochester, she found herself in a worse babel, if possible, than had existed at Albany.
One day she repelled with sullen rudeness the hand he offered to assist her in alighting from her horse or in climbing over a fence.
I fell in alighting from the motor-car, collecting a bigger crowd by sprawling than any of us had collected by our uniform.
Deane had set foot to ground in alighting from his carriage to the exact spot where he had stood when he had finally seized hold of the horse.
Above each roof a gilt vane glittered, and a flock of white pigeons circled overhead or, alighting, dotted the tiles with patches of silver.
As the king was alighting from his chariot at the garden-entrance of St.
Lawrence, always willing to indulge her, acceded to her request, and all three alighting, he told the coachman to drive slowly about until he should signal for him.
He thought of the alighting of that bird upon the sinking end of the log.
Alighting on the mountain where Satan had tempted him, the Son, filled with tender yearning for the race for whom he had died, has already anxious forebodings of woe on earth.
Presently he noticed a gentleman who was performing the same operation upon the faces of the alighting passengers.
We are also implored to make quite sure, before alighting from a train, that it is really at a station.
Ten million million leagues it fell, Alighting at the gate of Hell.
We usually rode for six or seven hours at a time without alighting even for a moment, though the thermometer frequently stood at from 30 to 34 degrees Reaumur.
On alighting from the train at Binghamton I was greeted by my old friends, Col.
From the other chariot alighted, first a man of middle age, next a woman somewhat younger, then an aged man and woman, the latter alighting with great elasticity of step.
He felt as Columbus felt when he saw the land-bird alighting upon his ship, and the driftwood floating by.
When alighting they cover the earth for more than a mile round, and eat every green thing to the very roots.
In midair he crossed his feet twice and even three times, before alighting.

Similar words containing ALIGHT without suffix ing

alight10 alights11 alighted13 tealight12 tealights13 alightment16 ultralight14 alightments17 ultralights15 ultralightweigh26 ultralightweight27

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