Northwesterly is valid Scrabble Word

Is northwesterly a scrabble word?
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13 letters word
22 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for NORTHWESTERLY in dictionary:

NOUN:

a wind from the northwest

ADJECTIVE:

from the northwest
Toward the northwest, or from the northwest.
coming from the northwest
situated in or oriented toward the northwest

Words related to NORTHWESTERLY

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How to use NORTHWESTERLY in a sentence

On March 1 two Russian armies were moving rapidly on Trebizond, one along the shores of the Black Sea through Rizeh, and the other in a northwesterly direction from Erzerum.
Thence they were led to a spot called Hatchet Harbor, about as much farther in a northwesterly direction, where they lay two nights more.
Troops were being hurried up in a north-westerly direction.
Twenty-five miles west from Lethbridge Bay is a projecting point from which the coast takes a north-westerly direction.
Views northwesterly from these hilltops suggest the Bay of Naples.
We have seen enough to know that with a north-westerly or westerly wind the floes tend to pack and that they open when it is calm.
We have noticed a very curious appearance of heavenly bodies when setting in a north-westerly direction.
Holding a north-westerly course we met with the Chikosho flowing west, and thence came to the Likombe by a high ridge called Losauswa, which runs a long way westward.
Of the immense expanse of country lying in a north-westerly direction towards Cashmere we know nothing, save by report, and that is not always to be trusted.
Following the creek took us in a serpentine course and in generally a north-westerly direction.

Then the Seine flows like a ribbon of silver in a northwesterly direction into the English Channel.
For instance, during the northern winter and spring months, northwesterly swells abound.
I sent out five men to go shooting in the northwesterly direction from the camp, and after a day and a half they returned with ten deer.
Late in July, we found much open water, and steamed steadily in a northwesterly course.
At Thirty-fourth street, Broadway crosses Sixth avenue, and at Forty-fourth street it crosses Seventh avenue, still going in a northwesterly direction.
A current setting to the westward was encountered, which drove them in a northwesterly direction and the wind increased to a gale with a heavy sea.
We halted behind the hills, and the artillery left their wagons, taking their guns into position where the range curved north-westerly.
The next day I bent my course in a north-westerly direction, and passed through a very fertile and beautiful section.
Next day I had a very enjoyable walk in a north-westerly direction to Chesterfield.
It is understood that they diverge many miles in north-westerly directions.
He was walking in the teeth of the northwesterly blast now and he could scarcely breathe, for the great gusts caught his throat, causing him to choke.
Thence it pursues a north-westerly course, and flowing through the lake Dibbie, reaches Timbuctoo.
CHAPTER II A HIDDEN HARBOR The northwesterly corner of California is a region apart.
Kennedy and his party returned to the camp, with the intelligence that it was impossible to proceed in a north or north-westerly direction, in consequence of the swamps.
We started early this morning, and proceeded up a spur of the range, in a north-westerly direction, but could not get so far as they had cleared.
Fierce north-westerly gales checked for days his northward progress.
Esher is a great city lying in a north-westerly direction from the last, and 400 miles distant from the Port of Aden.
The true mode of determining the most northwesterly of any two given points need no longer be a matter of discussion.
Apparently these fish pass straight inshore northwesterly and reach the coast of Maine.
He descended from the town level by a steep road in a north-westerly direction, and continued to move downwards till the soil changed from its white dryness to a tough brown clay.
There is an imaginary line, extending in a north-westerly direction, through a point in the vicinity of Cape Lookout, called the magnetic meridian, on which there is no variation.
The sandbanks extend in a north-westerly direction for at least six miles, so as to render the navigation extremely difficult even to the natives, and impracticable for strangers.
A straight avenue is said to have run from these in a north-westerly direction.
Crossing the Alleghany, he made his way in a north-westerly direction until Beaver Creek was reached, and then turned westward into the unbroken forest.
At first some of the other young fellows tried to take her from him, but one day it so happened that when she was out with Per, a fresh north-westerly breeze sprang up.
On the 23rd, another north-westerly gale was encountered, on the coast of Jutland.

Similar words containing NORTHWESTER without suffix ly

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