Contesting is valid Scrabble Word

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

10 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for CONTESTING in dictionary:

VERB:

CONTEST, to compete for
engage in competition to attain (a position of power)
take part in (a competition or election)
oppose (an action or theory) as mistaken or wrong
engage in dispute about

NOUN:

an event in which people compete for supremacy in a sport or other activity, or in a quality
a competition for a political position
a dispute or conflict

Words related to CONTESTING

contest9 contested12 contests10

Words that contain CONTESTING

contestingly18

How to use CONTESTING in a sentence

Apparently he had decided that his smaller vessels were fully capable of coping with the small number of the enemy that was contesting his advance.
During that afternoon it was all we could do to hold our own in fighting the mounted warriors, who were in our front and contesting every inch of the ground.
Webster was one of their foremost opponents in this, contesting their right to do it under the Constitution.
Another fellow was contesting his patent and fighting hard to head him off.
Glancing back for an instant Roy saw one of the contesting aviators dropping to earth.
Julia shrugged her shoulders, and, contesting the matter no further, followed the good woman along a corridor and through a door which shut off a second and shorter passage.
It was mere madness in him to think of contesting with a man of Mr.
All existing things show themselves to be the result of contesting forces.
As soon as I recovered, I took steps for contesting this order, but no definite action could be taken until after the Long Vacation.
Several dragon boats filled with rowers, rather paddlers, were contesting this afternoon in the harbor.

They were in a continued quarrel contesting the preeminence.
Napoleon, the prisoner of Elba, had returned to Europe, collected an army, and, contesting at Waterloo the strength of England and Prussia, had fallen.
For many years the learned men of Italy had been contesting the true nature of the Epic.
He had been contesting Dundalk as a Home Ruler, so we thought he was the very man to preside at our meeting, and gave that as our reason for asking him.
The superiority of John was, besides, too indisputable for Jesus, still little known, to think of contesting it.
Suddenly something like a groan was heard from the body of contesting men.
The contesting teams shall consist of six a side, with two reserve men who can be substituted at any time when the ball is not in play.
I understand also that there are certain games in which men selected from gentes as such are the contesting participants.
Yet although the capture of the ridge turned their position, the Turks elsewhere retired but slowly, contesting every attempt at an advance with most bitter determination.
So the way seemed clear to exclude the contesting delegates, to cast the votes of the three great States solid for Grant, and compel his nomination.
Again, as in the relay Marathon, Merry was contesting with Blunt for the benefit of Borrodaile.
In Northampton nearly all of our hundreds of gardens contesting for prizes are plays of only one or two acts.
Light and Darkness contesting for possession of the lunar disk, 468-l.
I am much more proud of receiving laws from you, than of contesting them.
The tape was fifty feet above the ground, and to qualify at all it would be necessary for the contesting models to clear it.
The Germans fell back slowly, contesting every inch of the ground.
Beset by this new foe, the Italians were forced back slowly, fighting every minute, however, and contesting every foot of ground as they retreated.
That the election under which the contesting delegate, Andrew H.
They stayed stubbornly in our front, contesting every inch of ground.
He took his talent and his good-fortune so simply that the world must needs insist upon them, instead of contesting them.
The result of the struggle in Kansas had reversed the relation of the contesting powers.
And the Americans on their part never thought of contesting a right by which they were so little affected.
The strains of an organ grew audible, contesting with the rattle of the steam pipes.
As far as dynamite is concerned, it appeared that there was no chance of contesting the concession in the law courts with any success.
Any number of all is the contesting that the two who are different are not darker color.
From some States there were contesting delegations, notably from Louisiana and Alabama, where the Douglas men had rallied in force.
The action of the convention turned upon the vote of the New York delegation, which would be cast solidly either for or against the admission of the contesting delegations.

Similar words containing NTEST without suffix ing and without prefix co

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