Diurnal is valid Scrabble Word

Is diurnal a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for DIURNAL in dictionary:

NOUN:

a service book containing the day hours
service book containing all the canonical hours except matins

ADJECTIVE:

recurring every day; having a daily cycle
of or during the day.
(of animals) active in the daytime.
(of flowers) open only during the day.
daily; of each day
of or resulting from the daily rotation of the earth
happening during the day or daily
Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
A daybook; a journal.
A small volume containing the daily service for the \"little hours,\" viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
A diurnal bird or insect.
of or belonging to or active during the day
having a daily cycle or occurring every day

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a diary

Words related to DIURNAL

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Words that contain DIURNAL

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How to use DIURNAL in a sentence

Keyts the diurnal happening to which he attached such importance was observed.
And this rude method of measurement of diurnal time remained in use till the sixth century.
Eastman, a gentleman of the army of the United States, and has been received by Congress and the diurnal and periodical press with decided approbation.
The diurnal press, however, gave this tone to the thing.
Very different are the diurnal scenes enacted from those which passed before my eyes at the ice-closed post of Mackinack last winter.
I have, in fact, little solicitude about these diurnal falsehoods, though I am not altogether free from alarm as to their tendency.
Metchnikoff has speculated upon the possibility of delaying old age, and I do not see why his method should not be applied to the diurnal need of sleep.
Sometimes, at midday, when the weather is gloomy, you may see an owl upon it, apparently enjoying the refreshing diurnal breeze.
His first impression was soon corrected, and he considered for a time that they might represent a diurnal species of bat.
Judging by its actions, as it trotted about before it saw me, it must be diurnal in habits.

Thus the diurnal waves of energy also meet a response in the organism.
But the refinements of the methods employed allow the diurnal variations both of velocity and altitude to be successfully measured.
This would produce an irregularity in the diurnal rotation.
In all places of the earth, as soon as we descend to a certain depth, the thermometer no longer experiences either diurnal or annual variation.
The association of the two dogs with day and night is the association of sun and moon with their respective diurnal divisions, and nothing more.
Next see Lucretian Sages, see the Sun, His course diurnal, and his annual run.
At close of the working day, Najib had brought the manager the usual diurnal report from the mine.
He, it would appear, thought that some account of my acquisition might supply the matter for his diurnal paragraph.
Diurnal and diary are derived from the same source.
But I do not think that a Reason why I should not give them their Place in my Diurnal as long as it will last.
For example, it is diurnal rather than nocturnal and becomes most troublesome in the afternoon.
Every thing has reference to the commencement of that diurnal session.
We fall in for our diurnal labours in comparative solitude, usually in heavy rain and without pomp.
We would be glad to be able give a diurnal record of his modes of deportment, and getting along.
To become, during this tedious captivity, perfectly acquainted with their most interior domestic and diurnal manners, was not without interest for a mind constituted like his.
Accordingly, if the barometer falls rapidly, or even if the regularity of its diurnal variation be interrupted, danger may be apprehended.
The climate is dry and sultry, the diurnal range of the Thermometer being from 28 to 32 degrees.
The Earth spun its diurnal round, the Moon went forward in her monthly orbit.
During my acquaintance with him in the City of Diurnal Night I had never known his views on life, romance, literature, and ethics.
I completed, too, the long delayed drawings of some diurnal wasp-moths and their larvae.
Then, God, look on me, From Thy throne eternal, Make pure unto Thee, This my hymn diurnal.

Similar words containing DIURN without suffix al

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