Whorl is valid Scrabble Word

Is whorl a scrabble word?
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
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5 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for WHORL in dictionary:

VERB:

to move in a twisted or convoluted fashion
spiral or move in a twisted and convoluted fashion.
A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
The fly of a spindle.
form a whorl or whorls

NOUN:

a pattern of spirals or concentric circles
each of the turns or convolutions in the shell of a gastropod or ammonoid mollusc.
a set of leaves, flowers, or branches springing from the stem at the same level and encircling it.
(in a flower) each of the sets of organs, especially the petals and sepals, arranged concentrically round the receptacle.

a complete circle in a fingerprint.
a small wheel or pulley in a spinning wheel, spinning machine, or spindle.
ring of leaves or petals
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
a strand or cluster of hair
a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops

Words related to WHORL

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Words that contain WHORL

whorls12 whorled14 whorlbat16 whorling15 whorlbats17

How to use WHORL in a sentence

In this arrangement, the leaves of each whorl stand over the spaces of the whorl just below.
This is produced by the habit of the tree of throwing out a whorl of imperfect branches just below the union of the main branches with the trunk.
Her spindle consists of a slender stick thrust through a whorl of baked pottery.
Underneath every pattern there are ridges running from one side to the other, so that if it were not excluded every pattern but the plain arch would be an accidental whorl.
Figures 272 to 276 combine a loop and a plain whorl or central pocket loop.
Hence, the impression is a good whorl of the central pocket loop type and needs no reference.
Figure 301 is classified as a whorl of the double loop type.
Figure 313 at first glance appears to be a whorl of the double loop type.
Figure 316 at first glance appears to be an accidental whorl, but on closer inspection it proves to be a loop.
Wherever a whorl appears it assumes the value of the space in which it is found.

Where no whorl appears in a set of impressions, the primary, therefore, would be 1 over 1.
The tracing of the whorl does not enter into the determination of the primary.
For example, assume that there is a whorl in the right index finger only.
If a whorl appears in the right thumb and right index finger, the value is 16 over 16 plus 1 over 1 giving a primary of 17 over 17.
For example, a major division of I over M in the primary 5 over 17 would reflect an inner-traced whorl over a meeting-traced whorl in the thumbs.
If the opposite finger were a whorl this would be classified as a whorl, and with the same tracing.
For further illustration, a print is given a preferred primary classification of 1, - 1 although the ridge detail on the right thumb is so formed as to resemble a whorl.
An examination of figure 372 shows that it is a whorl.
The approximate ridge tracing for the whorl in figure 372 would be MEETING.
In the core of the whorl, however, there is a heavy amount of ink which makes it impossible to determine the type of whorl with any degree of accuracy.
Actually, the correct type of whorl, a double loop, is clearly visible in figure 375.
Every ridge-mark, every loop and whorl of the varying patterns was engraved on my memory.
The ground colour appears as a white band on the body whorl marking its most prominent portion just below the centre.
The edge of the outer lip declines to join the body whorl a little below the keel.
The shaft and hook of this spindle are made of steel, and the whorl is made partly of steel and also partly of other materials.

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