Knots is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KNOTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• KNOT, to tie with a closed loop
• fasten with a knot
• make (a carpet or other decorative item) with knots.
• make (something, especially hair) tangled
• cause (a muscle) to become tense and hard.
• (of the stomach) tighten as a result of nervousness or tension.
NOUN:
• a fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it
• a particular method of making a knot
• an ornamental ribbon.
• a tangled mass in something such as hair or wool.
• a knob, protuberance, or node in a stem, branch, or root.
• a hard mass formed in a tree trunk at the intersection with a branch, resulting in a round cross-grained piece in timber when cut through.
• a hard lump of tissue in the body.
• an unpleasant feeling of tightness or tension in a part of the body
• a small tightly packed group of people
• a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds.
• a length marked by knots on a log line, as a measure of speed
• a small, relatively short-billed sandpiper, with a reddish-brown or blackish breast in the breeding season.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to tie in a knot (a closed loop)

Words related to KNOTS

knot8 knotted12 knotting13

Words that contain KNOTS

beknots13 reknots11 unknots11 bowknots17 topknots14 slipknots15 interknots14 witchknots22

How to use KNOTS in a sentence

• They came on without slackening speed in the least, and passed us at a pace which I estimated roughly to be about sixteen knots an hour.
• He communicated with the people by means of cords in which knots were tied in the most ingenious manner.
• The wind has come fair and we are on our course again, going between 7 and 8 knots.
• The ship, though steaming full speed, made no progress that night, but went back, and in three days, the 19th, 20th, and 21st, made only 100 knots.
• The women are seated on benches along the walls of the building, by themselves, while the men congregate in knots together.
• The next morning the ocean was a dirty brown-gray, and knots and wisps of cloud were tearing by close over the water.
• Each team is to have a piece of string about 25 feet long, free from knots.
• And yet, even here, we found it to run full five knots and a half in the hour.
• They have a guaranteed speed of twenty-eight knots.
• The heavier of these ships had a designed speed of 23 knots, and carried from 2100 to 2300 tons of coal.
• The speed attained is 35 knots an hour, which means the same speed as a train traveling at the rate of 40 miles an hour, since the sea mile, or knot, is longer than the land mile.
• His intent, therefore, was to pick up the Evangelistas light about midnight, and then crack ahead at fourteen knots, so as to be off Felix Point on Desolation Island by dawn.
• Little knots of people were engaged in discussion, but the discussions partook of no extraordinary bitterness.
• Many of the negroes in Missouri, as in other parts of the South, wear their hair, or wool, in little knots or braids.
• Another hymn, a simple benediction, and the solemnly impressed crowd broke up into little knots, and left the spot vacant to the silence of approaching night.
• The knots were increasing about the streets, for now the Bank Holiday people began to wander back from places that were not distant, and to them it had all to be explained anew.
• Again I rise, and begin to walk, stumbling through the long wet knots of the unseen grass, toward the house.
• The regular coal supply is 900 tons, which will enable the ship to cover a distance of 5,000 knots at a reduced speed of ten knots and about 1,600 knots at her maximum speed.
• Some were furnished with iron pots containing sulphur, others with torches of pine knots, many with poles, and the rest with guns.
• We had run at eleven knots into a bank of fog which seemed full of ships.
• The plants or sets are the small knots or fingers broken off the original root, as not worth the scraping.
• If the line pays out five hundred and ten feet in thirty seconds, by the glass, the ship is going ten knots an hour.
• The crew stood in little knots, talking earnestly to each other.
• So many and so hard were the knots in the thongs that I had to use my penknife to cut them.
• This country was full of pine timber, and every slave had to prepare a light wood torch, over night, made of pine knots, to meet the overseer with, before daylight in the morning.

Similar words containing KNOT without suffix s

knot8 beknot12 knotty13 reknot10 unknot10 beknots13 bowknot16 knotted12 knotter11 reknots11 topknot13 unknots11 banknote14 bowknots17 desknote13 knothead16 knothole15 knotless12 knotlike16 knotters12 knottier12 knottily15 knotting13 knotweed16 knotwork19 pyknotic19 slipknot14 topknots14 banknotes15 beknotted16 desknotes14 interknot13 knotgrass14 knotheads17 knotholes16 knottiest13 knottings14 knotweeds17 knotworks20 reknotted14 slipknots15 unknotted14 witchknot21 beknotting17 interknots14 knottiness14 reknotting15 topknotted17 unknotting15 witchknots22 knotheaded19 knotgrasses16 reknottings16 interknotted17 knottinesses16 interknotting18

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