Shortening is valid Scrabble Word

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

10 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for SHORTENING in dictionary:

VERB:

make or become shorter
(with reference to gambling odds) make or become shorter; decrease
make (a vowel or syllable) short
reduce the amount of (sail spread)

NOUN:

fat for making pastry short
The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods
act of decreasing in length

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make or become shorter

Words related to SHORTENING

shorten10 shortened13 shortenings15 shortens11

Words that contain SHORTENING

shortenings15 foreshortening21 foreshortenings22

How to use SHORTENING in a sentence

Our horses were all fresh and of excellent stock, and we soon began shortening the distance between ourselves and the redskins.
The days are shortening, and the twilight comes early, with a chilly breath.
Instead of shortening sail, the fore and main tacks were boarded, and the top-gallant-sails set.
It is no exaggeration to say that this invention, by shortening the labors, doubled the life of the astronomer.
If we wait, O king, for thirteen years, that period, shortening our lives, will bring us nearer to death.
Thus it is clear, that for both sexes there is now abundant legal precedent for any shortening of hours, which has its place in a more advanced social and industrial development.
They argued concerning this for many days, days of the ending of summer, of shortening evenings, and as they argued autumn grew nearer and nearer and the green letter from China.
The cause of the shortening of the flame is the more rapid combustion of the gas, owing to the increased draught or air-supply in the chimney.
I have thus far offered no experiments to show that this double illusion of lengthening, on the one hand, and shortening, on the other, does actually exist.
This frightened it and caused violent struggles to escape, but instead of shortening the time required for escape it greatly lengthened it.

SPEECH ON A BILL FOR SHORTENING THE DURATION OF PARLIAMENTS.
The two in the shortening shadow of the great rock were glad of the water-bottle.
A halting gait may also be produced by the abnormal development of a member, or by the shortening of the leg occasioned by the loss of a shoe.
Where shortening of bones occur, necessarily, permanent lameness follows.
This is best accomplished by shortening the toe and paring the sole at the toe as much as conditions will permit.
Three years after his death Nelson published his life and works, shortening, it is said, his own days by the too assiduous labour which he bestowed upon the task.
It was not the escape of a vessel in a storm with loss of spars and rigging, not a shortening of sail to save the masts and make a port of refuge.
But I give you my word, I never thought of shortening the chase in that way.
Fielden, member for Oldham, brought before the commons a measure for shortening the hours of labour of women and children, and young persons in factories.
The time in which to respond to it is relentlessly shortening.
He could picture quite plainly the agony of the parents, and common humanity imposed upon him the duty of shortening their misery as much as possible.
Not even the parole laws, which provide various reasons and ways for shortening sentences, ever lay down the rule that one may be released when he has reformed.
Speaking of the State of Illinois, I am sure that the parole law, instead of shortening the time of imprisonment, has lengthened the terms.
It is true, it is the first time I have followed this route across the plateau, a route which has the advantage of shortening our journey.
The instant he saw that the cat was going to jump he took a quick twist about the tree, shortening the rope until it was taut.
Pitt in his motion for shortening the duration of parliaments.
We soon began shortening the distance between ourselves and the fugitives.
The shortening invariably takes place at one of its long sinuous curves for which it is so remarkable.
Rub the shortening in with the hands till perfectly fine.
They of course show the usual shortening of the vowels with the usual exceptions.
The accident or attempted suicide, however, procured the shortening of her sentence.

Similar words containing SHORTEN without suffix ing

shorten10 shortens11 shortened13 shortener12 shorteners13 foreshorten17 shortenings15 foreshortens18 foreshortened20 foreshortening21 foreshortenings22

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