Mastication is valid Scrabble Word

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

11 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for MASTICATION in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of masticating
The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food.
biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
the action or process of masticating; chewing.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth; chew

Words related to MASTICATION

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Words that contain MASTICATION

mastications16

How to use MASTICATION in a sentence

In the minds of men, food, from its seed sowing up to its mastication, has always been associated with woman.
The dogmas which the law prescribes are to be received without investigation, to be swallowed like pills, without mastication.
She was certainly interested, and somewhat confused, and paused a moment in her mastication.
The mastication that follows will then be more thorough and the digestion more complete.
Neglect of thorough mastication must also be mentioned as a possible cause of indigestion following the use of nuts.
Nuts are generally eaten dry and have a firm hard flesh which requires thorough use of the organs of mastication to prepare them for the action of the several digestive juices.
Thorough mastication is absolutely necessary to the attainment of the very important requirements connected with the complete enjoyment of foods.
To begin with, as a result of thorough mastication and the action of the saliva, the food is already partly digested, and the stomach is ready to continue the process.
Our methods of food preparation also materially lessen the necessity for prolonged and thorough mastication.
Instructions should be given concerning the proper mastication of food, and during treatment the frequent partaking of small quantities of liquid foods is recommended.

Thorough mastication and the slow partaking of small quantities at a time are imperative.
Gladstone did something of the sort and was noted for the slow mastication of his food.
Intestinal poisoning, from insufficient mastication, 45.
Being fragrant of smell, they have a warm, sweet, pungent flavour, which becomes bitter on further mastication.
The aggressive chin beard, the continual mastication of the cigar which protruded from the corner of the mouth.
Ranger, because of imperfectly developed teeth rendering mastication difficult, had to have his share cut into very small pieces.
This is a specially advantageous method of serving grains for children, who are so liable to swallow their food without proper mastication.
It is likewise well to eat them in connection with some hard food, to insure their thorough mastication.
The believer in the doctrine of transmigration of souls carefully avoided this article of food, in the fear of submitting beloved friends to the ordeal of mastication.
Care should be taken in the preparation of these and the preceding salad, not to chop the vegetables so fine as to admit of their being eaten without mastication.
This is a wise precaution against insufficient mastication.
And he was perfectly frank about the intimate processes of mastication.
The only precaution is that at the meals it should not be drunk while food is in the mouth, for this would tend to lessen thorough mastication.
The effect of vigorous mastication is to stimulate the circulation in the tooth pulp, which promotes nutrition and maintains a firm dental setting.
By thorough mastication the succeeding digestive processes are more easily and completely performed.

Similar words containing MASTICA without suffix tion

masticate13 masticable16 masticated15 masticates14 masticator14 masticating16 masticators15 masticatory18 mastications16 masticatories17 onomastically20 paronomastical20

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