Prospecting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROSPECTING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• exploring for mineral deposits
• a mental picture of a future or anticipated event
• chances or opportunities for success or wealth
• a place likely to yield mineral deposits
• the possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring
• a person regarded as likely to succeed or as a potential customer, client, etc.
• an extensive view of landscape
• search for; seek
• search for mineral deposits, especially by drilling and excavation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to explore for mineral deposits

Words related to PROSPECTING

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Words that contain PROSPECTING

prospectings19 bioprospecting23 bioprospectings24

How to use PROSPECTING in a sentence

• McDonald had spent the summer up the river prospecting and exploring.
• He crossed over and found it, and spent some time in prospecting, and then recrossed to the sea.
• Dawson was more fortunate, and met a man who had spent most of the summer of 1887 prospecting on it.
• As much of his time would be taken up in prospecting, I should call thirty miles or less a closer estimate of his progress.
• He said that you and him and Hal Sinclair and Bill Sandersen all went out prospecting.
• Certainly the prospecting trip with the three other men had been worse than all the rest, but it had been typical.
• A party of eight men prospecting in the mountains to the west were surprised and all killed.
• The mountains are full of men hunting and prospecting all the time.
• Becoming restless in the garage, he determined to make his fortune quickly, and accordingly went out prospecting in the vicinity of the Little Annie mine.
• One day, after a week of prospecting, they met unexpectedly on the slope of an arroyo.
• They started out alone, Milton, for a little vacation prospecting trip.
• Some Americans who were through here prospecting for gold had letters to Senor Urique, and the boy was a favorite with them.
• I was up on the Knobkerry River, prospecting for diamonds, in Omomborombunga’s country.
• It was not until the active prospecting for gold and silver accompanying the American invasion and conquest began that the country again became known.
• Encouraged, he took his place once more by the signal fire and began in detail his plans for the further prospecting and development of the Island.
• Thompson had hired him to do, still there was no law against their prospecting on their own account.
• When that was gone, they would get more and go on prospecting.
• This is why so many mediocre men are found in the mountains and oil fields prospecting for hidden wealth.
• I do not know whether or not you remember the two American sailors who were the first to go out prospecting, after Mr.
• The part of a day in San Francisco was used to the full in prospecting the strange city.
• We started on our prospecting tour and went northeast to a place now called Big Oak Flat.
• Across the river we could see a little flat, very similar to the one we were on, and a little prospecting seemed to have been done on the side of the mountain.
• Moore the honor of having a prospecting town named after him because he was the first man to be on hand with a wife.
• Prospecting engaged the energies of many colonists in every generation, but most of those who thus spent their years at it got nothing but a princely dividend of chagrin.
• When one has spent six years prospecting and mining in Colorado and the Southwest one has usually ceased to be capable of surprise at any tricks Fate may spring.
• We can then start off prospecting, for I have a large portable tent, and we can carry enough food with us, with what game we can shoot, to enable us to live.
• Captain Lewis was out on a prospecting trip, and the party set out and found a beach through which a pleasant brook flowed to the river, making a very good camping-place.
• But enough remained to carry on the work of prospecting, and the finds were rich enough to lure new-comers.
• That youngster was always prospecting around on her own initiative, and she answered shrilly now from up the canyon.
• As father desired to get settled again as soon as possible, he left us at Weston, and crossed the Missouri River on a prospecting tour, accompanied by Will and a guide.
• But many prospecting parties go there looking for veins of ore and to take out borax.
• One balmy afternoon Everett brushed aside a spray of the pink and white blossoms and stood in the stone doorway with his prospecting kit in his hands.
• And he would fill in the time hunting, and maybe do a little prospecting, as he had vaguely hinted to the man who brought his supplies.
• The general topography of the state suggests at once the probability of deposits of ores of the precious metals, and the cursory prospecting already done justifies the outlook.
• Prospecting and mining engage the attention and labor of a large number of citizens.
• They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

Similar words containing PROSPECT without suffix ing

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