Knotting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KNOTTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• fasten with a knot
• make (a carpet or other decorative item) with knots.
• make (something, especially hair) tangled
• cause (a muscle) to become tense and hard.
• (of the stomach) tighten as a result of nervousness or tension.
NOUN:
• fancywork made by knotting
• a fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it
• a particular method of making a knot
• an ornamental ribbon.
• a tangled mass in something such as hair or wool.
• a knob, protuberance, or node in a stem, branch, or root.
• a hard mass formed in a tree trunk at the intersection with a branch, resulting in a round cross-grained piece in timber when cut through.
• a hard lump of tissue in the body.
• an unpleasant feeling of tightness or tension in a part of the body
• a small tightly packed group of people
• a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds.
• a length marked by knots on a log line, as a measure of speed
• a small, relatively short-billed sandpiper, with a reddish-brown or blackish breast in the breeding season.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to tie in a knot (a closed loop)
• a fringe made of knotted threads

Words related to KNOTTING

knot8 knots9 knotted12 knottings14

Words that contain KNOTTING

knottings14 beknotting17 reknotting15 unknotting15 reknottings16 interknotting18

How to use KNOTTING in a sentence

• My courage grew as I stood in the doorway, and I stepped out, closing the door silently and not locking it, but knotting the key in the string of my pajamas.
• Beyond the shadow of any doubt, at this present moment, a hundred thousand farmers are knotting their brows over its spread pages ere they tap out their final pipe and go to bed.
• Harry prepared for escape by tearing up the blankets of his bed and knotting them into ropes.
• The only sign he gave of the volcano raging and burning beneath the thin mask of calm was the ceaseless knotting of the muscles of the jaw and the compressed lips.
• With the bell shrilling its summons inside, the man paused long enough to study the knotting of the thong before he untied it and stepped inside.
• The elder braves lay before their lodges, many of them idling in the sunshine, others busied themselves making arrows, fitting handles to stone knives or knotting crab nets.
• He had a rope, and he was knotting it in a long loop to the poles.
• The twisting, interlacing, knotting, and stitching of filaments give relieved figures that by contact in manufacture impress themselves upon the plastic clay.
• Quickly knotting a third towel, he wedged and drilled a sharp knuckle joint into the flesh of the colorless cheek, between the upper and lower incisors.
• It is kept in position by knotting it over both the shoulders.
• He half rose, catching with both his hands at an object projecting from the yacht, and hastily knotting a rope.
• Join the flowers and the circles by knotting them together, or by making 1 purl longer than the others, and by drawing the next figure through.

Similar words containing KNOTT without suffix ing

knotty13 knotted12 knotter11 knotters12 knottier12 knottily15 beknotted16 knottiest13 knottings14 reknotted14 unknotted14 beknotting17 knottiness14 reknotting15 topknotted17 unknotting15 reknottings16 interknotted17 knottinesses16 interknotting18

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