Joist is valid Scrabble Word

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

5 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for JOIST in dictionary:

VERB:

to fit with joists
To fit or furnish with joists.
construct (a floor, roof, etc) with joists

NOUN:

a beam supporting boards of a floor or laths of a ceiling
a length of timber or steel supporting part of the structure of a building, typically arranged in parallel series to support a floor or ceiling.
A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a.
beam used to support floors or roofs
horizontal beam

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to support with horizontal beams

Words related to JOIST

joisted15 joisting16 joists13

Words that contain JOIST

joists13 joisted15 banjoist17 joisting16 banjoists18

How to use JOIST in a sentence

Flint ordered him to be taken to the work house, and tied up to the joist, so that his feet would just escape the ground.
A dull thud told of the trap fully raised and resting upon some supporting joist.
In the middle of this broad and fantastically carved joist there was an old painting representing a cat playing rackets.
She began at the door, found the corner of the room and stretched her arms upward until they touched the low, rough joist.
The rear joist is often a foot or so lower than the front one, which causes the roof to slant towards the back.
To be exact, that the bullet had probably either lodged itself in a joist, or had penetrated through the flooring and might be somewhere over my head.
For he set the light very carefully in the crook of a joist so that it illumined the whole hut.
It should be strongly framed of joist, and covered with smooth boards, and placed at the end of the hall, at equal distances between the side walls.
In the centre of the stage, two pieces of joist must be placed in an inclined position, running from the footlights to the background.
The latch I is made of an old-fashioned gate latch which is mortised in the bottom joist of the kennel.

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