Underlying is valid Scrabble Word

Is underlying a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for UNDERLYING in dictionary:

VERB:

UNDERLIE, to lie under
(especially of a layer of rock or soil) lie or be situated under (something)
be the cause or basis of (something)

ADJECTIVE:

Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.
in the nature of something though not readily apparent
located beneath or below
being or involving basic facts or principles

Words related to UNDERLYING

underlain10 underlay12 underlie9 underlies10 underlyingly20

Words that contain UNDERLYING

underlyingly20

How to use UNDERLYING in a sentence

Underlying many of our romances and tragedies are moral injunctions which are involuntarily absorbed by the observers, yet of so subtle a nature that they are not suspected.
She did not know the subtle underlying bonds in nature.
The confidence with which they were made sprang from the real and the historical force of their underlying idea.
Most significant of all, not once has the Forest Service been defeated as to any vital legal principle underlying its work in any Court or administrative tribunal of last resort.
The underlying thought may often have been that safety for the man lay in his insisting upon just and even favorable conditions for women.
Always, whatever their own descent and history, the older inhabitants feel resentment, knowing no more than their unfortunate rivals what is the underlying reason of the trouble.
God! But underlying all his surface thinking was still the need of flight, and he was continually confusing it with the earlier one.
They despise those who are indifferent to it, and give a ready submission to those who expect it, provided they feel sure of an underlying sympathy.
Rudimentary as is the Science of Life, it has already attained to certain fundamental principles underlying the development of all organisms, the human included.
He had not yet come to the full knowledge of the wrong principles underlying that mode of life.

Even those sections of the field which showed no depth of soil on account of underlying rock were treated like the rest.
In burns of the fifth degree the underlying muscles are more or less destroyed, and in those of the sixth the bones are also charred.
It was inaugurated, and even originated, by underlying causes of a purely natural character.
However, the idea underlying the processes is identical.
Her crown was made of purity, chastity, modesty, infinite tenderness and patience and underlying fidelity to her sacred cause.
After a moment of this he then placed beneath the large underlying rock and at its left side a small stone.
At its base on three sides lies a plateau, its edges gnawed away by the sea to the underlying rocky skeleton.
Now, this consideration, which Aristotle gives way to on various occasions, is the motive underlying the objectionable metaphor.
I acquired no definite knowledge of underlying principles, of general history, of economics, of languages, of mathematics, of physics or of chemistry.
Do not let us make a mistake concerning the underlying cause of the servant problem.
Now that political privilege and inequality before the law are more or less removed, there is a greater concentration upon the underlying social injustice.
As a rule they do not know the laws underlying these effects.
All of these ways may be classified under four different classes according to the underlying principle involved.
The treatment is, of course, somewhat poetical, but there are enough historical facts underlying the statements to justify a rendering of it being given in this chapter.
Napoleon did not heed their silly stories of shooting exploits, though he knew the underlying purpose of them.

Similar words containing DERLY without suffix ing and without prefix un

elderly11 orderly11 panderly14 readerly12 tenderly12 yonderly15 slenderly13 unorderly13 disorderly15 untenderly14 underlyingly20

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