Recess is valid Scrabble Word

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

6 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for RECESS in dictionary:

VERB:

to place in a hollow
attach (a fitment) by setting it back into the wall or surface to which it is fixed
(of formal proceedings) be temporarily suspended
suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily
(of an official body) suspend its proceedings for a period of time
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
put into a recess
close at the end of a session
place or set (something) in a recess

NOUN:

a small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest

a hollow space inside something
a remote, secluded, or secret place
a period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended
a break between school classes
niche or alcove
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
A sinus.
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
a state of abeyance or suspended business
a small concavity
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
an enclosure that is set back or indented
a pause from doing something (as work)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to place in a receding space or hollow

Words related to RECESS

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How to use RECESS in a sentence

The light appeared in the dim recess of the wardrobe.
The Duke of Clarence moved that the House should not proceed in the consideration of the Slave Trade till after the Easter recess.
In the recess behind the draperies the chair in which his excellency was bound, creaked.
A scroll hung in an illuminated recess at one end of the room.
Here they were surprised and pleased to see a large bower built, in front of a little sort of cavern or recess in the rock.
The recess behind the counter in which his mattress was thrust, looked like a grave.
From the recess formed by a shop door he peered out at Gray, where the light of a street lamp fell upon him, studying his face, his movements, with unrelaxing vigilance.
The Committee of the States, however, during the recess, will have time to digest it thoroughly, if Congress will fix some general principles for their government.
It was housed in a recess in the wall of the traveling trench, and was open to the sky.
Looking to the window, he saw the figure of an unhappy female whom he had betrayed, and who in consequence had committed suicide, standing in the window recess.

In consequence of the inquiries of these commissioners a mass of information had been obtained, which he hoped to be able to lay before the house soon after the Christmas recess.
Early in April, the Easter recess being all over, Lady Monk gave a grand party in London.
For slight offences the boys were deprived of their recess or compelled to study for an hour after the school was dismissed.
There was apparently no bench in the interior, but on the western or northwestern side there is a bench-like recess of about a foot which occupies 7 feet of the circumference.
It occupies the middle third of a large recess in the main wall of the kiva, and is connected at its outer end with a vertical square shaft about a foot wide.
The recess hour arrived while they were still at school.
Jimmie Dale snapped the case shut, returned it to its recess, and from another took out a black silk mask.
And drawing a house-cloth from a mysterious recess, she went on her knees in a practical prayer for pardon.
One day, at the morning recess, a group of boys were talking about the Mexican War.
At the recess, the lawyers crowded about Bart to congratulate him for his defense, among whom Kelly was the foremost.
They had agreed that no recess of more than thirty minutes should be taken until a decision had been reached.
The writer knows of a fourth grade in which during the past year a boy was absent from the room after recess.
Congress was then in recess, and the sudden overthrow of the rebellion required speedy action.
During a recess, which preceded the hour when the man-of-all-work took us to the Charlemagne Lyceum, the well-to-do pupils used to breakfast with the porter, named Doisy.
In this recess there suddenly appeared a scene, not as though it were cast by a lantern on the wall, but as if the wall were broken down, and showed a room beyond.
But let us turn to the facts, as stated in the house of lords on the 2nd of May, when the peers met after the Easter recess.
The Senate adjourned or took a recess on Thursday afternoon, May 17, until to-day, the 21st of May.

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