Tightening is valid Scrabble Word

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

10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for TIGHTENING in dictionary:

VERB:

make or become tight or tighter

NOUN:

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make tight

Words related to TIGHTENING

tighten11 tightened14 tightenings16 tightens12

Words that contain TIGHTENING

tightenings16 retightening17 overtightening22

How to use TIGHTENING in a sentence

Half dressed he darted to the door, and crouched there, the muscles of his arms tightening, his body tense with the gathering forces within him.
There was a strained look about her eyes, a tightening at the corners of the mouth.
With a tightening at her heart she wondered what her father would say if he could see the difference wrought by one short year.
Its pressure was like a tightening cord, its steady persistence like that of a screw.
She tugged at the bottom of her jersey, tightening it against her breasts.
Only here and there a foot moved uneasily as weights were thrown forward, and there was a general, almost imperceptible, tightening of nerves and muscles.
He rested a kindly hand on her shoulder, tightening the fingers with a sympathetic pressure.
That had been in the boyhood of the Sons, but now they were nearly men, And the chains had been tightening upon them and tightening with every year of growth.
During the last half of July such reports had been current daily, tightening the tension, frightening parents, wives, and sweethearts.
He could not have told why his eyes grew strangely dim as he heard it now, or why a strange tightening came around his heart.

The diagram shows an arrangement for a tightening arrangement.
We had to lash the lumber, tightening the chains, and trying to stop the logs from smashing the ship to pieces.
Never would she beg of him, never, she resolved, with a tightening of her soft lips.
He stopped and passed his hand across his tightening forehead.
The tightening of labor markets has led to an influx of foreign workers, both legal and illegal.
He had just finished tightening the saddle-girth and was about to mount, when Senorita uttered a snort indicative of some strange presence.
And there in the strong support of his tightening arms, her face hidden against the leaping heart, all time and matters of the world drifted away.
The shock was tremendous, but Gaston bore it with only a tightening of the lips to show the agony he was enduring.
The banks are getting afraid of cattle paper, and conditions are tightening.
Dolly held her left hand loosely, and two or three times she thought the grip was tightening.
He was somewhat cut and bruised, but not seriously hurt, and tightening the saddle-girth I waded along through the water, leading him after me until I was able to regain the path.
At last the task of tent-raising was completed, save for the final tightening of all the ropes.
He struggled hard to free himself from the ever tightening grip, and then lost consciousness.
By using two nuts on the bolt, and tightening one against the other, they were prevented from working loose and coming off.

Similar words containing TIGHTEN without suffix ing

tighten11 tightens12 retighten13 tightened14 tightener13 retightens14 tighteners14 overtighten18 retightened16 tightenings16 overtightens19 retightening17 overtightened21 overtightening22

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