Astringency is valid Scrabble Word

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

11 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for ASTRINGENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:

being astringent, also ASTRINGENCE
The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.
a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker
the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids
the property of causing skin cells or other body tissues to contract.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the quality or state of being astringent

Words related to ASTRINGENCY

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How to use ASTRINGENCY in a sentence

The only sensible quality of the Speedwell is the powerful astringency of its leaves, and this property serves to protect it from herbivorous foes.
Of old, much credit for curative virtues attached itself to this plant, though it is without odour, and has no taste other than that of slight astringency.
The taste was rather pleasant at first, but left an astringency behind that scarcely tempted one to try a second time.
Even when his rebellion is at its highest pitch he wastes little energy in hating and so avoids the astringency and perturbation of a state of mind which is always perilous.
It was also put into chocolate to deepen its color and lend an astringency which was thought to be wholesome.
And it is a fact that garden plants are generally poor and tasteless, while those that grow wild have a certain astringency and pleasant bitter flavour.
In this process the acid of the tea acts upon the copper, and causes that astringency which we remark in all the China teas.

Similar words containing ASTRINGEN without suffix cy

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