Buoyancy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BUOYANCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the tendency to float, also BUOYANCE
• the ability or tendency of something to float in water or other fluid.
• the power of a liquid to keep something afloat
• a cheerful and optimistic attitude or disposition.
• a high level of activity in an economy or stock market
• ability to float in a liquid or to rise in a fluid
• The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
• The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
• Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
• cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
• the property of something weightless and insubstantial
• the tendency to float in water or other liquid
• irrepressible liveliness and good spirit

Words related to BUOYANCY

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How to use BUOYANCY in a sentence

• Nor did he regain any of his old buoyancy of spirit until the day when they told him J.
• There is a constitutional buoyancy and elasticity of mind about him that cannot subside into repose, much less sink into dulness.
• This difference in buoyancy will probably be enough to offset the higher seas and rougher weather of the Atlantic.
• His wife, also, seemed to partake of this buoyancy, for her eyes fairly sparkled as he glanced from side to side.
• He managed to fasten the life-preserver to him, and with the buoyancy of the cork to aid him he swam easily, though he did not make very fast progress.
• The buoyancy and brightness seemed to have left him.
• They marked the buoyancy of her tread, like the skim of a bird which has not quite alighted.
• Save for a natural buoyancy of spirit she might have wept her way across North America.
• The reader can easily imagine how much more buoyancy I obtained by these expedients.
• Thrilling to the speed and the buoyancy and the obedience of the little craft the girl drove toward the northwest.
• She knew that her buoyancy tanks might keep her afloat indefinitely, but she had neither food nor water, and she was being borne toward the least-known area of Barsoom.
• He felt something of the buoyancy that comes to all men in the beginning of a fight, but more perplexity.
• While this was being done another man was letting water into her ballast tanks to reduce her buoyancy.
• They take no strength out of the hand, and they put much strength and buoyancy into the heart.
• It is the dissolved rocks of the Earth which give it at once its brine, its strength, and its buoyancy.
• He had been very tired and white, and some of his natural buoyancy seemed to have deserted him.
• Next, as to the question of buoyancy in Class A materials.
• The atmosphere was transparent and crisp, and as it entered the lungs stimulated the body like a tonic, giving new life and buoyancy and action to the limbs.
• Only the buoyancy of her tanks and timbers kept her from the last plunge.
• The ship that battles with the storms and the seas, with something like a kindred buoyancy, goes down with the calm that follows their violence.
• Then he turned a tap and let the stored gas, compressed in an aluminum cylinder, flow into the balloon, and restored the whole machine to its former buoyancy.
• This will depend a great deal on the physique and buoyancy of the swimmer.
• They remembered well the eager buoyancy with which he and his comrades had set out for the gold fields.
• Meanwhile, however, and with spirits restored by the Southern warmth to that buoyancy which never long deserted them, Sterne had begun to set to work upon a new volume.
• He goes off to the raft, picks out a log and tries its buoyancy with care.
• His writings lack the human touch, tenderness, and the buoyancy of sympathy.
• While the little and low brigantine began to labor and roll, the Coquette rode the element with buoyancy, and consequently with less resistance from the water.
• This time its spring lacked the buoyancy of life, and Frank knew that his bullet had reached its billet.

Similar words containing BUOYAN without suffix cy

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