Tapering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAPERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end
• gradually lessen
NOUN:
• the act of tapering
• a slender candle
• a wick coated with wax, used for conveying a flame.
• a gradual narrowing
• a gradual or incremental reduction
• the act of gradually lowering the size or amount
ADJECTIVE:
• becoming smaller towards one end
• Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.
• becoming gradually narrower
• gradually decreasing until little remains
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to become gradually narrower toward one end

Words related to TAPERING

tape6 taper7 tapered10 taperingly16 tapers8

Words that contain TAPERING

taperings12 taperingly16

How to use TAPERING in a sentence

• You are a distinct type, with your impulsive temperament, clear skin and tapering fingers.
• Cut off the tapering end of a carrot and scoop out the inside of the larger half in the form of a vase, leaving about half of the flesh behind.
• The skull should be flat and narrow, the stop not perceptible, the muzzle long and tapering.
• The line across her eyebrows and tapering along her jaw was right.
• If you can have them sawed to order have them 3 inches in the center and tapering to 2 inches at the ends.
• His linen and clothing were immaculate, and the hand that curved around his cup had long, tapering, well-manicured fingers.
• The extreme diameter of the boom is 26 inches where the sheets are fixed, tapering off at the jaws, and 13 inches at the boom end.
• This tree is described as tapering and cone-like, with upright branches growing close to the trunk, and in its general appearance a little resembling a poplar.
• He gets a fine cotton fabric woven into the shape of a cylinder, with a tapering point.
• It was a tall tree, of a kind I did not know, and my weight upon its tapering top must have exerted a considerable force upon its loosened lower end.
• Thus, the tapering of a pyramid would give the first kind of suggestion, the picture of a runner the second kind.
• The finest specimens are long, thick, cylindrical, and gradually tapering, with a hole at one end as if on purpose to receive the shaft.
• There is no opening in the lower part, but in the upper part there is a neatly finished doorway 3 feet high and slightly tapering.
• The neck is cut tapering from G to F and from J to F, with the back side rounding.
• And as he kissed it, the long tapering upper spars of the Phantom vessel, the yards and sails that were set, fell into dust, fluttered in the air and sank upon the wave.
• Though a Manchu maid, the Revolution played into her tapering fingers the opportunity for the sweetest revenge that ever tempted an almond-eyed beauty.
• The lodge was shaped like a cone, sixty feet in diameter at the base and tapering towards the top.
• Big, soft and supple, broad-shouldered, with a full beautiful bosom, small feet, and tapering limbs.
• And Daniels noted the hands, lean, tapering like the fingers of a girl of sixteen.
• The body is formed by the hollowed-out trunk of a tree, tapering and rising at each end, short and rounded behind, but in front run out into a long beak.

Similar words containing TAPER without suffix ing

taper7 tapers8 tapered10 taperer9 taperers10 taperings12 taperness11 taperwise14 taperingly16 taperstick18 tapernesses13 tapersticks19 metaperiodic19

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