Piercing is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for PIERCING in dictionary:

VERB:

(of a sharp pointed object) go into or through (something)
make (a hole) with a sharp instrument
make a hole in (the ears or other part of the body) so as to wear jewellery in them
make an opening in or bore a tunnel through
force a way through; penetrate

NOUN:

a hole made in body piercing
art or practice of piercing body parts for the insertion of jewellery

ADJECTIVE:

penetrating, very acute
(of a sound) shrill and high-pitched
Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust.

having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to cut or pass into or through
a piece of jewelry attached to pierced flesh

Words related to PIERCING

perceant12 persant9 persaunt10 pierce10 pierced12 pierces11 piercingly18 piercings14

How to use PIERCING in a sentence

He had just done this when he came to the sudden determination of piercing the side of our Saviour.
From them looked a pair of piercing, young, black eyes.
The higher he climbed, the longer and sharper grew the thorns of the tree, piercing and tearing, until they killed the Buso.
The cries of the poor fellow disturbed me greatly, and I went upon deck, but the heavy rain and piercing cold were not less terrible.
Enjoy in advance, if you can, the pleasure of piercing the bosom of your friend, but be sure that you will not have that of contemplating my despair.
Heaven help us, nor you nor I nor any one may transform through any personal force this bitter world, this piercing, cruel place of frost and sun.
Few men have entered so deeply into the ideas and feelings of the time, or have looked at the world, its history and its conditions, with so large and piercing an insight.
Instinctively both of them recognized it, unmistakably, as the piercing cry of a woman in great distress and terror.
The air was reduced to half its usual density, and felt intensely cold and piercing.
In the same moment the bird uttered a piercing cry.

Now We have removed from thee thy covering, and piercing is thy sight this day.
Before them rolled the bald prairie wide as the sea, with all the stars of heaven piercing the black dome overhead.
The leader was a tall, thin man with a leathern face, hooked nose and piercing gray eyes.
Each time she lifted her eyes they rested upon the silent, white figure with its single eye piercing the depths of her soul.
Now, in the outer Court, huge against the white dazzling snow, the great shadow was hovering, its head piercing the stars, its arms outstretched.
The proper stage can be determined by piercing the nut with a needle, a certain degree of hardness being desired.
It was as if the voices of all the cats in the county were raised in one piercing battle-song.
For, through the deserted house rang two short and terrified screams, high-pitched and piercing.
From Lebanon we pushed on to Springfield, through a keen, piercing wind, that swept from the northwest with unremitting steadiness.
Her low notes were voluptuous, her high notes rang with piercing sadness.
Leyden jar can easily perform the interesting experiment of piercing glass plates.
They have not that piercing clearness which determines conviction by simple apprehension or at first sight.
It was impossible to deceive my keen and piercing gaze.
Caldwell told us that one night while passing down a deserted street in a Chinese village he was startled to hear the most piercing shrieks issuing from a house nearby.
He was in a strong boat, his four faithful comrades were with him, and he was piercing a new mystery, that of a vast and unknown river.
Grasping his good sword Balmung, Siegfried first met Ludegast piercing him through his steel harness with an ugly thrust till he lay helpless at his feet.
When the light of truth broke into the heart of man, it caused an agony as piercing as when a woman brings her child into the world.
Its gentle Paradise was suddenly broken in upon and rent apart by a succession of the most piercing shrieks that ever originated in the throat of a human being.

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