Clinging is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for CLINGING in dictionary:

VERB:

CLING, to adhere to
hold on tightly to
adhere or stick firmly or closely to; be hard to part or remove from
remain very close to
remain persistently or stubbornly faithful to
be overly dependent on (someone) emotionally

NOUN:

a clingstone peach.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make a high-pitched ringing sound

Words related to CLINGING

cling8 clinged11 clings9 clung8

Words that contain CLINGING

clingingly17 clingingness16 clingingnesses18

How to use CLINGING in a sentence

The beetle, which, during the recent exchanges, had been clinging to his head, hoping for the best, gave it up at this and resigned office.
It was very cold kneeling there and clinging in the tip of the great beech-tree.
For perhaps a full minute he remained there motionless, his hat clinging to one side, his hand in his hair.
So she sat for a long moment, her eyes clinging for safety to the little volume in her hands.
Morris still clinging to his hastily formed opinion, the two gentlemen continued to argue the matter until, Mr.
Thus he struggled a long time, clinging to the rocks when the sea overwhelmed him, and crawling along upon the jutting points whenever the retiring water permitted.
The prevailing sentiment of these poems is a wistful clinging to this present life, a Pagan optimism which finds no fault with human existence save that it is so brief.
Long after he left his native village, the neighbors used to tell with what astonishing rapidity he would descend high trees, head foremost, clinging to the trunk with his feet.
This Sibyl Andres, gowned in clinging white, was a slender, gracefully tall, and beautifully developed woman.
By a strenuous effort Hermas kept his place on the frail platform, clinging to the unbroken rein.

In a week she was ready and eager to go but the day of farewell found her clinging to Hannah in a panic.
She could think of no reply that had not a lash of bitterness in it and, clinging to the dignity of silence, rather than the vigour of attack, she said nothing.
He was sitting straight in the saddle, was no longer clinging.
Her damp curls, clinging to her head and her eyes a little heavy with heat and weariness after her morning of play, made her look scarcely older than Patience.
And then it seemed that for an instant she yielded and was clinging.
He had taken both her hands for an instant, and felt the convulsive clinging of the thin fingers.
Behind the irritation aroused by his scepticism was that peculiar clinging of a woman to an old lover, to a man with whom she had been intimate.
Clinging feebly to that Heaven-sent bit of wood, he kept his face above the water while his spent strength was gradually restored.
Even Le Chapelier, though still clinging to his ankle, had ceased to tug.
Clinging tightly to the rope, he gazed quickly about.
If I tried to let myself down a steep slope by clinging to a thick fern it would almost invariably strip away with a long layer of dirt and send me headlong.
In this way one is free to observe the scenery and vegetation, instead of merely clinging to his animal and watching its steps.
She had no recollection of her father, but remembered being torn from her mother while clinging to her dress.
The infant of a few days old may show the swimming movements, but at the same time he can support his own weight by clinging to a horizontal stick.
Silence and a curious, clinging perfume met them as they entered.
With a whiskbroom, Carter brushed off any dirt still clinging to the treasures, and piled them up on a table.
And the morning finds them tired in body and more tired in the spiritless uncertainty that hangs over them like a clinging damp fog.
His mind was entirely occupied by the hungry, big-eyed babies and their sadly smiling, clinging mothers.
You do not experience that clinging, chilly, damp sort of cold in Canada that you do in the British Isles.

Similar words containing CLING without suffix ing

cling8 clings9 clingy12 clinged11 clinger10 cycling15 uncling10 circling13 clingers11 clingier11 cyclings16 muscling13 noncling11 oracling11 anticling12 articling12 bicycling19 circlings14 clingfilm17 clingfish18 clingiest12 clingwrap17 manacling14 musclings14 recycling17 treacling12 upcycling19 clingfilms18 clinginess13 clingingly17 clingstone13 clingwraps18 encircling15 pinnacling15 precycling20 recircling15 recyclings18 tricycling18 unicycling18 chronicling19 clingfishes20 clingstones14 freecycling22 immanacling18 outmuscling16 tricyclings19 unmanacling16 encirclings16 clinginesses15 clingingness16 motorcycling22 tabernacling17 semicircling19 grasscycling21 conventicling21 motorcyclings23 clingingnesses18

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