Tongues is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TONGUES in dictionary:

VERB:
• TONGUE, to touch with the fleshy organ of the mouth
• sound (a note) distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue
• lick or caress with the tongue
NOUN:
• the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.
• the equivalent organ in other vertebrates, sometimes used (in snakes) as a scent organ or (in chameleons) for catching food.
• an analogous organ in insects, formed from some of the mouthparts and used in feeding.
• the tongue of an ox or lamb as food
• a particular language
• a strip of leather or fabric under the laces in a shoe, attached only at the front end.
• the pin of a buckle.
• the free-swinging metal piece inside a bell which is made to strike the bell to produce the sound.
• a long, low promontory of land.
• a projecting strip on a wooden board fitting into a groove on another.
• the vibrating reed of a musical instrument or organ pipe.
• a jet of flame
• used in reference to a person's style or manner of speaking
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to touch with the tongue (an organ of the mouth)

Words related to TONGUES

tongue7 tongued9 tonguing10

Words that contain TONGUES

oxtongues17 outtongues11 tonguester11 bluetongues14 tonguesters12 bonytongues17 beardtongues16

How to use TONGUES in a sentence

• At three he got up, swung the crane round so that the darting tongues of flame could lick the hot-water pot, and then he measured out some coffee.
• For he that speaketh with tongues speaketh not unto men, but unto God.
• There had been more tongues spoken during the past month in this little Yankee city than would have sufficed for our whole stellar system.
• Riley rolled up his sleeves and his eyes, flung his arms about, wept and shrieked unknown tongues for twenty minutes.
• He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.
• She caught the hum of voices, many tongues mingling, while the odours of vegetables and fruit and human beings came faintly to her nostrils.
• And before we go farther, we have a brief story to tell in illustration of the two tongues.
• The next morning rumor had, as they say, her hands and tongues very full of business.
• They speak Spanish, but they have their own tongues as well, and there are said to be a hundred dialects in use.
• If such tongues, however, be deprived of that fragrance, they assuredly would be unworthy of any mention, be they words or thoughts.
• Angels were seen by many of the Saints, Brigham Young spoke in tongues, others prophesied, and many saw glorious visions.
• Accident and the tongues of men earned for Sundown that peace which he so thoroughly loved.
• What lamentable and foolish and provoking situation at such gatherings is due to the multitude of tongues only those know who have wasted time and money in attending them.
• These mother tongues were the original languages from which the various modern languages are derived.
• The murky volumes of smoke seemed to shut out all light, excepting when the tongues of fire shot through them.
• Over a hundred thousand copies were soon sold, and translations were made into all the European tongues.
• The case as to the gift of tongues is still less satisfactorily made out.
• Fear of pain loosened their tongues, and they were condemned to death.
• Still, when tiny tongues of flame played at hide-and-seek about the charred log, they caused all sorts of odd shadows to run athwart the walls.
• As soon as they arrived, all the jars rolled around them and stuck out their tongues and Aponibolinayen was afraid, for she feared the jars would eat them.
• Pyramids of Egypt! can ye surpass these enormous piles? The Common covered with tents and wigwams, and people of all sorts, colors, conditions, nations, and tongues.
• Two of us exercised the Chinese language, besides the Bissayan and Tagalo tongues, which are usually employed for preaching, confessions, and the other Sacraments.

Similar words containing TONGUE without suffix s

tongue7 tongued9 oxtongue16 outtongue10 oxtongues17 tonguelet10 bluetongue13 outtongued12 outtongues11 tongueless11 tonguelets11 tonguelike15 tonguester11 bonytongue16 beardtongue15 bluetongues14 tonguesters12 bonytongues17 beardtongues16

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