Flying is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLYING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings
• (of an aircraft or its occupants) travel through the air
• control the flight of (an aircraft)
• transport in an aircraft
• accomplish (a purpose) in an aircraft
• release (a bird) to fly, especially a hawk for hunting or a pigeon for racing.
• move or be hurled quickly through the air
• (of accusations or insults) be exchanged swiftly and heatedly
• (of a report) be circulated swiftly and widely
• hit a ball high into the air
• wave or flutter in the wind
• (with reference to a flag) display or be displayed on a flagpole
• go or move quickly
• depart hastily
• (of time) pass swiftly
• run away; flee
• escape from in haste; flee from
• be successful
• Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
NOUN:
• the operation of an aircraft
• an opening at the crotch of a pair of trousers, closed with a zip or buttons and typically covered with a flap.
• a flap of material covering the opening or fastening of a garment or of a tent.
• the space over the stage in a theatre.
• a one-horse hackney carriage.
• an attempt
• a flying insect of a large order characterized by a single pair of transparent wings and sucking (and often also piercing) mouthparts. Flies are of great importance as vectors of disease.
• used in names of flying insects of other orders, e.g. butterfly, dragonfly, firefly.
• an infestation of flying insects on a plant or animal
• a natural or artificial flying insect used as bait in fishing, especially a mayfly.
• an instance of traveling by air
ADJECTIVE:
• knowing and clever
• fashionably attractive and impressive
• moving swiftly
• hurried and brief
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move through the air

Words related to FLYING

flew10 flies8 flown11 fly9 flyings14 volatic12

Words that contain FLYING

flyings14 reflying15 nonflying16 outflying16 overflying20 butterflying21

How to use FLYING in a sentence

• Then there came a crash, followed by the sound of flying feet.
• He wanted the bracing winds, and the soft lights that chased the flying shadows across the English hills.
• Those wings were blue, and shone like silver, and so gorgeous that, when the butterfly was out flying, all the other animals stood still and stared at it.
• Many ridiculous mistakes were made at first, and each man had a good laugh at the folly of each of the others for some play that left a big hole in the flying protection.
• But in an astonishingly short space of time, she marched into the parlor, every war-flag flying, and closed the door behind her.
• Gathering her skirts higher, with hair flying around her face and her eyes almost bursting from their sockets, she ran straight toward it.
• She took her revolver out and fired into the lock, which was shivered on the instant, the pieces flying round in all directions, but happily without causing hurt to anyone.
• There was a bit of shrapnel flying about, but not much.
• But he had laid before her the necessity of a flying visit up country at once, and had urged her to again carry on the store duties in his absence.
• I have altogether too many faults to be one, and should constantly be flying in the face of my own theories.
• Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying years Bring each man his laughter and each man his tears.
• Trees, hills, plain, and sea forget the flying hours.
• He was staring down the long ribbon of sky, and Graham, following his eyes, saw the flying machine small and faint and remote.
• Marcus looked out of the window at the flying landscape, and the distant patches of wood which seemed to be slowly revolving about each other, and was profoundly wretched.
• Huntley and Algy are already flying down the room in an active, tender embrace.
• An old original telegraph had been set up by Colonel Clifford, and its arms set flying to tell him.
• That made me laugh at first, but I was just paralyzed with amazement when I saw clean-cut chips flying at every stroke and caught a metallic gleam as his paw swung in the air.

Similar words containing FLY without suffix ing

fly9 flys10 flyby16 flyer11 flype13 flyte11 refly11 barfly14 botfly14 dayfly16 deafly13 deffly16 flyboy17 flybys17 flyers12 flyest12 flyman14 flymen14 flyoff18 flyped15 flypes14 flysch17 flyted13 flytes12 flyway18 gadfly14 liefly12 mayfly17 medfly15 naffly15 naifly12 outfly12 purfly14 ruffly15 sawfly15 waffly18 aloofly13 beetfly15 blowfly18 bluffly18 briefly15 bushfly18 chiefly18 cornfly15 deerfly14 dropfly16 firefly16 flyable15 flyaway19 flyback21 flybane15 flybelt15 flyblew18 flyblow18 flyboat15 flybook19 flyboys18 flyhand17 flyings14 flyleaf16 flyless13 flyline13 flyoffs19 flyover16 flypast15 flyping16 flytier13 flyting14 flytrap15 flyways19 fritfly16 gallfly14 glowfly17 goutfly14 grayfly17 gruffly17 ladyfly17 overfly16 sandfly14 shadfly17 shoofly16 sniffly16 snuffly16 stiffly16 tailfly13 wormfly18 alderfly15 blackfly22 catchfly21 cranefly16 flyaways20 flybacks22 flybanes16 flybelts16 flyblown19 flyblows19 flyboats16 flybooks20 flyhands18 flylines14 flymaker20 flyovers17 flypaper18 flypasts16 flypitch21 flysches19 flysheet17 flyspeck22 flyspray19 flytiers14 flytings15 flytraps16 flywheel20 greenfly15 horsefly17 housefly17 hoverfly20 reflying15 stonefly14 superfly16 whitefly20 butterfly17 caddisfly19 damselfly18 dobsonfly18 dragonfly17 flybridge19 flyleaves18 flymakers21 flypapers19 flyposter17 flyrodder17 flyscreen17 flysheets18 flyspecks23 flysprays20 flystrike19 flyweight22 flywheels21 highflyer22 nonflying16 outflying16 unflyable17 flyfisher21 flyblowing22 flybridges20 flycatcher23 flypitcher23 flypitches23 flyposters18 flyposting19 flyrodders18 flyscreens18 flyspecked25 flystrikes20 flyswatter19 flyweights23 highflyers23 overflying20 flyfishers22 butterflyer19 flycatchers24 flypitchers24 flypostings20 flyspecking26 flyswatters20 butterflyers20 butterflying21 butterflyfish27 butterflyfishes29

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