Sniffing is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for SNIFFING in dictionary:

VERB:

draw up air audibly through the nose to detect a smell, to stop it running, or to express contempt
draw in (a scent, substance, or air) through the nose
investigate covertly, especially in an attempt to find out confidential or incriminating information about someone
discover something by investigation

NOUN:

the act of sniffing
an act or sound of sniffing
an amount of air or other substance taken up by sniffing
a hint or sign
a small chance
A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.

ADJECTIVE:

with a sniffing sound

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to inhale audibly through the nose

Words related to SNIFFING

sniff11 sniffed14 sniffingly20 sniffs12

Words that contain SNIFFING

sniffings16 sniffingly20

How to use SNIFFING in a sentence

He almost broke loose when he leaped down upon the white snow, but when he saw no one there, he stood rigid, sniffing the air.
He rose to his feet and moved stealthily about the cabin, sniffing at the walls, the door and the things his mistress had done into packages.
In these moments when she was alone Gray Wolf was constantly sniffing the air.
He stood like a stag, sniffing the night air, and peering with his deep eyes into the gloom.
She had to push the door to in their very jaws and they pressed against it, their heads hung low, sniffing the odor of food.
For at least five minutes he stood looking down into the valley, and sniffing the wind, as motionless as though carven out of rock.
For a minute or two Thor stood sniffing this scent that filled the air.
For fifteen minutes he stood looking down into the valley, sniffing the air.
He was a good half-mile from the place he had made home, and he was sniffing about the end of a rock when a great shadow fell suddenly upon him.
At first he thought it was a dog, because of the peculiar sniffing sound it made, but a second glance showed it to be Wise Eye in search of plunder.

He goes to all the book-sales, and spends the rest of his time sniffing about the second-hand shops.
On deck, where Borckman kept a sharp eye out against danger, Jerry prowled about, sniffing the many legs of the many blacks he had never encountered before.
On the shallow, sun-warmed steps he sat playing with fir-cones, fingering their scaly curves and sniffing their dry, brown fragrance.
This struck Cartucho as both novel and interesting, and he thrust his sniffing black nose still nearer.
Now they crept noiselessly, sniffing this way and that, and never showing their noses outside a thicket without first taking observations.
At first Morse paid little attention, but finally he quit sniffing and looked up, real interest in his face.
Cynthia went with Norry willingly enough, leaning heavily on his arm and occasionally sniffing.
Young Pete, sniffing a customer, was immediately up and doing.
And as Sara stood watching, spellbound and sniffing, she knew she had been mistaken in thinking that, there was no sound at all.
Later on she dreamed that the mother bear had come into the cave and was sniffing her all over.
The stream ran swiftly and the horse put his head down sniffing the water as if frightened.
The man held a double-barrelled gun cocked in his hand, and screwed up his eyes in the direction of his lean old dog who was running on ahead sniffing the bushes.
She was sitting in a large easy-chair, sniffing Eau-de-Cologne, with a little table by her side, on which was a glass containing orange-flower water.
But the Ferret kept sniffing round after a secret which she knew lay not far away.
As we neared the wicket gate again we stood upon a bit of jutting rock and peered over the wall, sniffing the hawthorn buds with ecstasy.
The sniffing continued, as she went through the familiar procedure.
Then he jumped down, and with his nose to the ground, ran all around the stump, sniffing, sniffing, sniffing.
He had started out with all due regard to the way the wind was blowing, so as not to alarm any quarry that might be sniffing up the breeze.
The hairy-grey Thing came sniffing at the corpse under my arm.
Still Jan kept up his scratching and sniffing and barking, and Franz knew only too well that there was no use in opposing him, although his fingers and toes were half frozen.

Similar words containing SNIFF without suffix ing

sniff11 sniffs12 sniffy15 sniffed14 sniffer13 sniffle13 sniffly16 sniffers14 sniffier14 sniffily17 sniffish17 sniffled15 sniffler14 sniffles14 sniffable17 sniffiest15 sniffings16 snifflers15 snifflier15 sniffling16 sniffiness16 sniffingly20 sniffishly22 sniffliest16 sniffinesses18 sniffishness21 sniffishnesses23

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