Joists is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JOISTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• JOIST, to fit with joists
NOUN:
• 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to support with horizontal beams

Words related to JOISTS

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Words that contain JOISTS

banjoists18

How to use JOISTS in a sentence

• New joists were inserted in the old walls, boarded over, and covered, after the advice of Mortimer, with some cunning mixture to keep out the water.
• If you fall between the joists, you will clatter to the basement.
• Naked joists and rafters of black wood support the ceiling.
• The principal tomb had a portico, supported by columns, but the front is now entirely hurled down, and only the elegant panelling and stone joists of the ceiling remain.
• They rode around the whole cabin, and continued their ride even up toward the joists.
• Some boards were laid across the joists at the top, and between these boards and the roof was a very small garret, never occupied by any thing but rats and mice.
• The ceiling was of joists, and my mother used to hang the seed that we gathered in the fall, to dry from these joists.
• This part of the arrangement completed, I ate a hearty breakfast, when I began to secure the hatches, as a sort of floor, on my primitive joists.
• A few boards raised on joists made an admirable platform.
• The floors throughout are fireproof, formed of iron joists, and arched with hollow bricks of a singular construction.
• A sudden trembling of the walls and upper joists was felt, the crowd rushed out, and the next moment the whole building was one fallen mass of smoking ruins.
• From this wall beams run across the kiln-pot, over which, in a transverse direction, are laid a number of rafters like the joists of a loft, but not fastened.
• In the rear of this stand were two long tables, made of rough boards, and supported on stout joists, crossed on each other in the form of the letter X.
• Over this reservoir is an open framework of joists, upon which stands a number of empty potting casks.
• The chariots of the gods and goddesses are made of four joists in a frame, suspended by a thick rope, as a swing might be.
• Then a plank is stuck across the joists, and on this is seated a god.
• Two joists are laid over them parallel to each other.
• The joists support the fiat roof of loose pine boards, laid sometimes in a double layer.
• The single equivalent for a room in it is the space above the joists which are extended across the building at the lower edges of the roof.
• They form a uniform bed for the joists, to which easy fixing is obtained.
• The building should be tied together by joists at the plates, properly anchored into the walls, to prevent their spreading.
• With removal of flooring and joists, soon the massive lid of granite was raised on edge.
• These were placed about five feet apart and parallel, and then firmly secured by bamboo joists.
• Outside a wind was whistling mournfully and sweeping through the joists of the roof where the red tiles had been shattered by shrapnel.
• Trees were selected, cut down, stripped of their branches, and cut into beams, joists, and planks.
• It is to overcome this tendency that floor joists are braced at frequent intervals.
• The houses likewise are all of one storey, as the country has no wood fit for joists or flooring-deals, every kind which it produces becoming worm-eaten in three years.
• It was a long platform, floored and tarred, supported by a network of joists, and under which flowed the river.
• A huge beam divided the lofty ceiling into two compartments, which were crossed at regular intervals by smaller joists, richly carved, and retaining some traces of gilding.
• Dan and Greg, from the wagon, passed down the tent itself, the floor boards and joists, the cots and bedding and some of the food supplies.
• The new wooden joists are cut to length and notched at the ends, then installed between the existing joists.
• The bricks or blocks, as well as the joists themselves, will reduce the amount of fallout radiation penetrating downward into the basement.

Similar words containing JOIST without suffix s

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