Heightening is valid Scrabble Word

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

11 letters word
19 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for HEIGHTENING in dictionary:

VERB:

ADJECTIVE:

reaching a higher intensity

Words related to HEIGHTENING

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How to use HEIGHTENING in a sentence

She knew that its presence there had the effect of heightening her own sensual attraction.
She gave many heightening touches to characters but coldly written, and often made an author vain of his work that in itself had but little merit.
But what they did, and what they said, The monarch who triumphant went, The militant who staid, Like painters, when their heightening arts are spent, I cast into a shade.
The heightening sun lit the mass of waters more and more.
Besides the temples of Philae there are several other ruins which will be flooded in part by the water when the heightening of the reservoir is completed.
He had descended from a long line of royal sculptors, heightening in genius in the last three.
The sound seemed to swell and spread abroad, widening and heightening.
The messenger, taller, more powerful, it seemed, by the heightening and strengthening force of righteous wrath, faced the mightiest man in the kingdom.
Pride nourishes itself by gazing on inferiors, and heightening the contrast.
With these he loved to deck Saskia, heightening her girlish charms with the play of light upon these adornments.

At this particular moment the scene was brightened by the fleeting glow with which Nature delights at times in heightening the beauty of her imperishable creations.
But one series of tints, one colour must needs have a heightening value amidst this iridescent display.
Some are sewn thick with pearls bordering and heightening the lines of the figures of saints, and forming the outlines of the Sclavonic inscriptions.
The result was the latter found their heads and shoulders showing well above the parapet, and this necessitated the immediate heightening of the same some two to three feet.
For as time slipped away and her eye followed the heightening line of the Apennines, she knew that tranquil Tyrrhenian Sea would not long be left to her.
What other Accidental Causes may contribute to the heightening of these Pleasures.
All four mounted the steps of the building with heightening color.
Instead of heightening his passion, they cooled it.
The pretentious Government buildings of the New Japan assume dignity with the deep shadows and the heightening effect of the darkness.
Even the dash of roughness, the lapses from conventional forms of speech and manner she now and again observed in him, caught her fancy, heightening his attraction for her.
It has generally been believed that poets work by a sort of native inspiration, and that the poetic gift is a sort of heightening of temperament.
And a good teacher, who is an evergreen learner, goes backwards and forwards, too, sharing the work and heightening the delight.
A little heightening of her color made her, to my eyes, more beautiful than ever.
When the heightening tension of the silence that followed this outburst had grown absolutely unendurable she spoke.

Similar words containing HEIGHTEN without suffix ing

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