Northerly is valid Scrabble Word

Is northerly a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for NORTHERLY in dictionary:

VERB:

Toward the north.

NOUN:

ADVERB:

in a northern direction
towards the north

ADJECTIVE:

situated in the north; towards the north; (esp. of the wind) coming from the north
in a northward position or direction
(of wind) blowing from the north

of or in the north
Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.
situated in or oriented toward the north
coming from the north; used especially of wind

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

situated toward or belonging to the north

Words related to NORTHERLY

northerlies14 northerliness16

How to use NORTHERLY in a sentence

They made a curve to the right here, and headed northerly until they came to Salton.
Thereafter Bamburgh was visited by various sovereigns in turn, when their affairs brought them to the northerly parts of their kingdom.
Yesterday after a beautifully fine morning we got a strong northerly wind which blew till the middle of the night, crowding the young ice up the Strait.
But I am anxious to get back and see that all is well at the latter, as for a long time I have been wondering how our beach has withstood the shocks of northerly winds.
When we camped there was a chill northerly breeze, a black sky, and light falling snow.
But in the more northerly parts they are Summer Citizens, returning early and staying late.
Sometimes, returning from his northerly rounds, he would send the trap on, and walk back to Morfe by Karva, on the chance.
It was not till the 1st of May that the Nautilus resumed its northerly course, after having sighted the Bahamas at the mouth of the Bahama Canal.
Taking northerly direction, they explored the coast as far as Secotan, an Indian town some sixty miles mouth of Roanoke, where they were hospitably received by the savages.
There is between the Southerly lands, and the Northerly about thirty leagues distance, and more then two hundredth fadome depth.

He therefore continued his course, light northerly airs prevailing, until the 11th, when, being about fifty miles to the north-east of his port, he bore away for it.
Already there was a difficulty in obtaining supplies from the devastated country-side, and northerly winds prevented the provision ships from sailing from Berwick to the Forth.
He had run thirty miles against a northerly sea to bring them.
An advance from the north must be made with a northerly wind.
In the first part we came more northerly than easterly and in the latter part more easterly than northerly.
It is the most northerly and populous district along the bay shore above the Pasig.
With the northerly wind the air was raw, sharp, and cold, and we had fogs, sunshine, showers of snow and sleet, by turns.
Adiutrix for work elsewhere, it recalled both governor and legion, and gave up the more northerly of his nominal conquests.
On the third day of his stay off the Tagus he took advantage of a northerly gale to run for the anchorage at St.
But, from light northerly winds, did not reach an anchorage under Percy Island, Number 2, until the morning of the 10th.
During the three days previous to our making the land, we experienced a northerly current of one knot per hour.
The land was now in sight, Cape Villaret being the most northerly point, and bearing East-South-East some 16 or 17 miles.
Kellogg and Plante were for taking the northerly direction.
He therefore tied up the corn, and to prevent suspicion that he had run away from the Moors, took a northerly direction.
We now proceeded in a northerly direction until we were impeded by scrub, about three miles from the camp.
On the northerly side of the island was a hollow, where the tide penetrated the sand, leaving stagnant water.
After twelve, the strong northerly wind, which blows with great force at intervals this time of the year in this country, sprung up, and it soon got intensely cold.
She had made a rapid passage from the Tyne, and was sailing along the island of Gotland with a strong northerly wind.
You may either come between this island and Java, or, if the wind is northerly, run out between the island Thwart-the-way and this last small island.
The day before we came out I sent a boat ashore to the most northerly of the 2 islands, which is the least of them, catching many small fish in the meanwhile with hook and line.
The wind, however, kept northerly, as though it had been nailed to that quarter.
In both a line joining the centre of two circles passes through a single stone in a northerly direction, and there is in both a fixed line from the centre of the larger circle.
It consists of two halves, the more northerly of which was almost certainly built later than the other.

Similar words containing NORTHER without suffix ly

norther10 northern11 northers11 northered13 northerns12 northering14 northerner13 northerlies14 northermost16 northerners14 northernise14 northernism16 northernize23 northernised16 northernises15 northernisms17 northernized25 northernizes24 northernmost17 northerliness16 northernising17 northernizing26 northerlinesses18

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