Longing is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for LONGING in dictionary:

VERB:

have a strong wish or desire

NOUN:

a strong desire
a long period
a long sound such as a long signal in Morse code or a long vowel or syllable
long-dated securities, especially gilts.
assets held in a long position.
An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
yearning

ADVERB:

for a long time

in questions about a period of time
at a time distant from a specified event or time
after an implied point of time
(after a noun of duration) throughout a specified period
(with reference to the ball in sport) at, to, or over a great distance
beyond the point aimed at; too far

ADJECTIVE:

measuring a great distance from end to end
(after a measurement and in questions) measuring a specified distance from end to end
(of a journey) covering a great distance
(of a ball in sport) travelling a great distance, or further than expected or intended
of elongated shape
(of a person) tall.
lasting or taking a great amount of time
(after a noun of duration and in questions) lasting or taking a specified amount of time
seeming to last more time than is the case; lengthy
relatively great in extent
(after a noun of extent and in questions) having a specified extent
(of a vowel) categorized as long with regard to quality and length (e.g. in standard British English the vowel /uË/ in food is long as distinct from the short vowel /ÊŠ/ in good).
(of a vowel or syllable) having the greater of the two recognized durations.
(of odds or a chance) reflecting or representing a low level of probability
(of shares, bonds, or other assets) bought in advance, with the expectation of a rise in price.
(of a broker or their position in the market) buying or based on long stocks.
(of a security) maturing at a distant date.
(of a drink) large and refreshing, and in which alcohol, if present, is not concentrated.
well supplied with
(of a vowel) categorized as long with regard to quality and length (e.g. in standard British English the vowel /uː/ in food is long as distinct from the short vowel /ʊ/ in good).
having or showing desire
(of a garment or sleeves on a garment) covering the whole of a person's legs or arms
(of a person's memory) retaining things for a great amount of time.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to desire strongly

Words related to LONGING

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How to use LONGING in a sentence

When I stood before the gate my heart and my soul were so full of rapture and longing that I forgot.
But the wild loneliness, the continual presence of my beloved, yes, even the hardships of our wandering life, increased the force of my longing.
His expression, softening, became terrible with brute tenderness and longing.
But always in his heart was the aching longing to see his dear ones again.
The reader is permitted to watch from step to step the growth of this longing, and to behold each new deed by which it is expressed.
Some of them are songs expressing faith and endurance and a longing for freedom.
Life, says our colleague, is full of significance, of meaning, of success and of defeat, of hoping and of striving, of longing, of desire, and of inner value.
For the fire within mastered the fire without, and the glow of her longing soul deadened the burn of her scorched skin.
In those days some precious volume became the Laura of a poor monk, who lavished on it all the poetry of his nature, all the unsatisfied longing of a lifetime.
In a few hours it would be gone, and for an instant there came to him the longing to go back and give up his foolish quest.

He found himself longing to take her away somewhere out of it all.
She found it hard even to think the words that she must say and she thought of the privileged girl with longing in her soul.
Only when he shut Betty resolutely out of the chambers of his brain could he be free of that hungry longing for her.
Then he turned toward the desert and Rhoda saw the look of joy change to one so full of unutterable longing that her heart was stirred to sudden pity.
She ate in silence, while Kut-le watched her with unspeakable longing in his eyes.
He was stupid, useless at games, having only somewhere behind his fat ugly body a longing to be connected with some cause, some movement, some person of whom he might make a hero.
It is not the man from across the Pacific who commits the fearful crimes, and who is longing to put his hand to our political wheel and rule the United States.
I am very happy to be present at this meeting which has innate radiance, intelligence, perception and longing to investigate reality.
O holy Lord! O Lord of loving-kindness! We stray about Thy dwelling, longing to behold Thy beauty, and loving all Thy ways.
I am likewise longing to gaze upon those illumined faces and converse and associate with those true friends.
Convey on my behalf the utmost love and longing to Mr.
He told how he used to peer in through the gate as he passed Harvard College with an infinite longing for the treasures of learning that were inside.
But I had an infinite longing for my home and my profession and my library.
Both went forth from their native place longing to find a broader field of action and greater scope for their intellectual powers.
Every one in the Holy Household is engaged in thy remembrance and sends thee their longing greeting.
We turned longing eyes back as we left the lake to its winter ice and quiet.
Bishop was to be brought to bedd, and hath giuen out that she kills her chilldren wth longing, because she longs for every thing she sees, wch Mris.
He had never asked himself if a return of his passion were even possible, until now, when his whole fervid nature had gone out in a great hungry longing for her love and sympathy.
He had the most frantic longing to take her in his arms and kiss her, and tell her he was madly in love with her, and wanted her never to be out of his sight.
A man is contemptible who stands shivering and longing outside of what he dare not attempt.
Hero followed obediently, when the Little Colonel ordered him to jump up beside her, but he turned longing eyes on the orderly, whom he had welcomed with strong marks of pleasure.
I went to him in London with my heart full of longing and love.
She remembered how he sang in his cage, although he was longing for his green tree tops.
Our attitude towards that gift should be earnest longing.

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