Absorbing is valid Scrabble Word

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

9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for ABSORBING in dictionary:

VERB:

ABSORB, to take up or in
take in and understand fully (information, ideas, or experience)
take control of (a smaller or less powerful entity) and make it a part of a larger one
use or take up (time or resources)
take up and reduce the effect or intensity of (sound or an impact)
take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action
take up the attention of (someone); interest greatly

ADJECTIVE:

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.
capable of arousing and holding the attention
occupying one's attention

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

occupying one\'s attention

Words related to ABSORBING

absorb10 absorbed13 absorbingly19 absorbs11

Words that contain ABSORBING

absorbingly19 reabsorbing16 preabsorbing19

How to use ABSORBING in a sentence

Here is an absorbing story, with a carefully constructed plot, and the action moves swiftly to its thrilling, inevitable conclusion.
The anticipation of going out with him was now utterly absorbing her.
He was practically the last of the great Asiatic emperors, absorbing in his dominions those acquired by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Lydians.
Singly upon his brow sits the absorbing sense of wonder at the created miracle.
In the midst of his absorbing reverie, Teddy suddenly paused and looked around him.
The woman summoned all her powers to compel his mind with what was so absorbing to her.
The plausible serenity of his manner was replaced by unusual gloom, and that abstraction which is produced by deep and absorbing thought.
Thus the Parson, to whom what he was to make of Ishmael had become the absorbing passion of his own life.
With him, as with many mystic writers, all other elements of human nature are slighted and neglected in the absorbing thirst for holiness.
But when our lines of march crossed, when we halted to make way for each other, what an absorbing pageant of personality! Each rank was a series of intimate pictures.

All the rest of that day the engineer seemed preoccupied by some absorbing thought.
At another time, under other conditions, these things would have held for him an absorbing interest.
On November 28th, he informed Salzmann that he was engaged on a work which was absorbing him to the forgetfulness of Homer, Shakespeare, and everything else.
Her litigation was the one absorbing thought of her life, her one topic of conversation.
No other man of letters has there been in America, or perhaps in any other land, to whom this has been a passion so absorbing.
Over these blundering schemes and views, absorbing the activity of the Army, the really necessary means, which could alone save, were lost sight of.
His whole story is so absorbing that you will sit up far into the night to finish it.
The story is told in such a vivid way that it is as interesting and absorbing as a romance.
It would be two months and a half before spring work opened, and what to do in the mean time was the one absorbing question.
His interest grew so absorbing that he kept himself informed about the changes she was passing through, and her manner of meeting them.
In simple types attention is directed to some one vice, passion, or virtue, capable of absorbing a human life in to itself.
Alcott mused through the afternoon in characteristic fashion and Emerson sat with us, silently absorbing the mystic speculation.
There was another subject though, quite homely, seeing where we both lived, and equally absorbing for us both.
And the doctor was annoyed by the interruption in the midst of something that was absorbing him.
Then I felt safe, for criticism of the Rhine is absorbing matter for conversation.
There is no doubt that there is nothing in the world more selfish, more absorbing, more disagreeable to every one excepting the players, than chess.

Similar words containing ABSORB without suffix ing

absorb10 absorbs11 absorbed13 absorber12 reabsorb12 absorbant13 absorbate13 absorbent13 absorbers13 preabsorb15 reabsorbs13 absorbable16 absorbance16 absorbancy19 absorbants14 absorbates14 absorbedly18 absorbency19 absorbents14 preabsorbs16 reabsorbed15 unabsorbed15 absorbances17 absorbingly19 preabsorbed18 reabsorbing16 unabsorbent15 absorbancies18 absorbencies18 nonabsorbent16 preabsorbing19 absorbability22 nonabsorbable19 nonabsorbents17 absorbefacient23 superabsorbent20 absorbabilities21 absorbefacients24 superabsorbents21

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