Racking is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for RACKING in dictionary:

VERB:

cause extreme pain, anguish, or distress to
torture (someone) on the rack.
place in or on a rack
move by a rack and pinion.
raise (rent) above a fair or normal amount.
oppress (a tenant) by exacting excessive rent.
(of a horse) move with a rack gait.
go away
(of a cloud) be driven before the wind
draw off (wine, beer, etc.) from the sediment in the barrel

NOUN:

the act of racking
a framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things
a stack of digital effects units for a guitar or other instrument.
a vertically barred frame for holding animal fodder
a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something
an instrument of torture consisting of a frame on which the victim was stretched by turning rollers to which the wrists and ankles were tied.
a triangular structure for positioning the balls in pool.
a single game of pool.
a set of antlers
a bed.
a joint of meat, typically lamb, that includes the front ribs.
Spun yarn used in racking ropes.
a woman's breasts
a horse's gait in which both hoofs on either side in turn are lifted almost simultaneously, and all four hoofs are off the ground together at certain moments.

ADJECTIVE:

tormenting, exhausting
causing great physical or mental suffering

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to place in a type of framework

Words related to RACKING

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How to use RACKING in a sentence

Racking me up to a starving Want and Misery, Then took advantages to ruin me.
I stood quite still, racking my brains as to what was the best thing to do.
There was no movement but the racking throb, until Mayne raised his hand and winch and windlass rattled.
And, instead, here he was, pent up in a close room, racking his brains about people dead and gone thousands of years before he was born.
Some of us called it Off, some Owf! I knew I had heard the name somewhere, and I was racking my brains to think as Johnson set up our wee piano and I began to sing.
Racking my brain for a new start I fell back on those useful fellows, the authors.
Her body would be still a minute, and then a racking spasm took her and her teeth chattered.
Racking my brains for some means of overcoming the difficulty, I suddenly bethought myself of trying a ruse.
The whole night through I suffered from racking pains in head, limbs, and body.
The pangs of hunger and the torments of thirst were racking me with redoubled vigour.

Her body quivered, her breath came in gasping bursts between racking sobs.
Softly at first, then with a racking agony of tears.
It was clear Jim was racking his brain, and we sat staring desperately at each other across the candles.
Atterson showed anger, Hiram went back to work in the field with a much deeper feeling racking his mind.
Shame and sorrow and remorse were racking him down.
I went back to my hotel quite harassed, puzzling and racking my brains.
I have been racking my brains all the afternoon without the vestige of a result.
CHAPTER XI RUSS IS WORRIED Alice was racking her brain to recall where she had seen the man before.
He did not smile, remembering how, only fifteen years before, he had gone through the same torture, racking his brains trying to adjust the measurements of a magnascope prism.
I had forgotten them, too, but when I was racking my brain how to get the Selfridge dress, the remembrance tumbled down off its dusty little shelf.
While these two angels were busily racking their brains, I sat with a great idea developing in mine.
Marshall studied him, racking his memory for a name.
On the seventh day they had nothing left to eat, and they sat there sighing, rubbing their empty stomachs, and racking their brains with thought.
But when Cash began to cough with that hoarse, racking sound that tells the tale of laboring lungs, Bud began to feel guiltily that he ought to do something about it.
So in time the morrow came, and by all rules I ought to have had a racking headache.
All these things, and the prairie folk huddled trembling in their homes, a mute agony of fear racking their small bodies.
The sides put on and well fastened will greatly assist in stiffening the platform and help it to stand the racking strains.
In our moments of enjoyment we prefer being led, to racking the brain for invention.
Hardened as they were, they noticed that their last racking of the prisoner had benumbed even hope.
My time did not come for many days, and I spent long hours racking my brain for the answers which I ought to give.
It was after two in the morning ere Harry, after racking his brains in vain, fell asleep.
The long, sleepless nights with spells of racking pain continued.
It had been racking him for a long time past, and it was growing worse now.
And all the time, as there seemed no chance of getting work, she was racking her brains for some way of getting out of the city before his next intermittent outburst came along.
He was not conscious of the bitter cold for his work kept him warm, but his brain was full of racking thoughts.
The next morning Arthur awoke with a racking headache.

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