Ticking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TICKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• mark (an item) with a tick or select (a box) on a form, questionnaire, etc. to indicate that something has been chosen, checked, approved, or dealt with
• (of a clock or other mechanical device) make regular short, sharp sounds, typically one for every second of time that passes
• (of time) pass
• proceed or progress
NOUN:
• a strong linen or cotton fabric used for mattress and pillow cases, also TICKEN
• a mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with.
• a regular short, sharp sound, especially that made by a clock or watch
• a moment
• the smallest recognized amount by which a price of a security or future may fluctuate.
• a parasitic arachnid which attaches itself to the skin of a terrestrial vertebrate from which it sucks blood, leaving the host when sated. Some species transmit diseases, including tularaemia and Lyme disease.
• a parasitic louse fly, especially the sheep ked.
• a worthless or contemptible person
• a fabric case stuffed with feathers or other material to form a mattress or pillow.
• on credit
• strong material for mattress covers
• A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.
• a metallic tapping sound
• a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers
• a mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make a recurrent clicking sound
• a strong cotton fabric

Words related to TICKING

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Words that contain TICKING

sticking15 tickings15 anticking16 deticking17 stickings16 besticking19 unsticking17 lipsticking20 pigsticking21 politicking20 practicking22 billsticking21 pigstickings22 politickings21 billstickings22 outpoliticking23

How to use TICKING in a sentence

• The very ticking of the clock was bringing the moment nearer, and there she was, staring at me, wide-eyed, half puzzled and half frightened.
• It was most of it Greek to me, but Grim listened like an operator to the ticking of the Morse code.
• The strokes fell with the regularity of the ticking of a clock.
• There is such absolute silence in the room that the ticking of a clock is distinctly heard.
• Once he got up to stop the ticking of a clock on the chimney-piece, moving mechanically with stealthy footfall across the room lest she should be disturbed.
• For a moment I heard nothing but the ticking of a small silver clock on the writing-table.
• Its ticking had kept me company on many a lonely night, and its elegance had helped me to keep my pride and to retain the respect of my neighbors.
• The room was so still that the heavy ticking of the clock sounded like hammer blows on an anvil.
• She told herself instantly that the slowly ticking clock had counted her out several years of grace beyond what a mother may expect.
• Spring! See the counter, its bright ticking with fail-safe growth.
• Not even the ticking of a clock could be heard in that long, singularly furnished apartment.
• The girl glanced round, frowned, and went upstairs to her room without a word, passing on the landing the ancient clock in its tall case, ticking loud and slow.
• The knocking of the slow sea upon the cliff seemed like the ticking of the great clock that is our world.
• That sound was the ticking of the watch in the hand of the dead woman.
• A rather dark old-fashioned paper, an old clock ticking, an old shining chest of drawers with a marble top, and clothes hanging on pegs.
• Upholstered furniture must be closely covered with old muslin or ticking.
• In the tense stillness, the clock could be heard ticking on and on.
• Now it seemed that the little Dutch clock, which had been ticking so merrily, so much in unison with life, all went out of time.
• His footsteps were as much a part of her days as the ticking of the clock upon the mantel.
• For some minutes nothing disturbed the deep silence but the faint ticking of a clock.
• Nothing was heard but the monotonous ticking of the clock, and, at times, a low whistling of the canary-bird, in its gilt cage at the window.
• The quiet was delightful, and the ticking clock was the most pleasant of companions.
• It was the end of the cold weather, the leaves and the trees looked worn and faded, and there was a dry, ticking rustle everywhere when the wind blew.
• Neither spoke, but lay silently listening to the ticking of the clock.
• If a watch be placed within the mouth, but not allowed to touch the sides, the ticking is heard much less plainly than when held outside.
• When he had slept an hour a tiny voice in his ear, no louder than the ticking of a watch, told him to awake, that danger was near.
• Maggie had on a simple brown calico dress and an apron of blue ticking.
• The regular sobs of Blanche de Maletroit measured out the time like the ticking of a clock.
• There was a long silence, just the ticking of the Empire clock and the faint snapping of the fire.
• The ticking of the watch on the stand was all that broke the silence of the room.
• He sits in a glass cage and about him are a score or more of clocks all ticking soundly and all surrounded by an extra dial of small numbers running from one to a thousand.
• It was so quiet that they could hear the watch ticking in the next room where her aunt was sleeping.

Similar words containing TICK without suffix ing

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