Leavening is valid Scrabble Word

Is leavening a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for LEAVENING in dictionary:

VERB:

cause (dough or bread) to ferment and rise by adding leaven
permeate and modify or transform (something) for the better

NOUN:

the production of fermentation in
a substance, typically yeast, that is added to dough to make it ferment and rise.
dough that is reserved from an earlier batch in order to start a later one fermenting.
a pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better
The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven.
That which leavens or makes light.
an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something
a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to produce fermentation in

Words related to LEAVENING

leaven9 leavened12 leavens10

Words that contain LEAVENING

leavenings14 overleavening20

How to use LEAVENING in a sentence

Again she saw the cabin at home in that pitchy black which precedes the first leavening of dawn, and herself getting up to start early on the long walk.
It would be difficult to point out the exact period at which leavening bread was adopted in Europe, but we can assert that in the Middle Ages it was anything but general.
Simon, always painting, fought hard to keep down that little leavening of self which constitutes our very identity.
A prolific writer and a shrewd debater, Whiston played no small part in the general leavening of opinion.
A little leaven is leavening the whole mass for other bread.
As it was, they were her ballast, her refuge, the leavening yeast in the soggy dough of her existence.
Kultur is a leavening influence, and our spurious local Hun in Bulgaria is every bit as frightful in war and as oily in defeat as the genuine article on the Rhine.
All this time Rome was leavening the nations who had conquered her.
But there is one great objection to the use of soda alone as a leavening agent.
But now, new thoughts were stirring within her, were leavening her whole mind.

From Alaska to Chile, the Americas are astir with the leavening influences of the rising Order of the newborn Revelation.
It must be borne in mind however that the Christian Church was at work in those perilous times, which live only in memory now, and was gradually leavening the whole lump.

Similar words containing LEAVEN without suffix ing

leaven9 leavens10 leavened12 leavener11 leaveners12 leavenous12 leavenings14 overleaven16 unleavened14 overleavens17 overleavened19 overleavening20

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