Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Twisting |
TwistingAdjective1. Having a twisting or snake-like or worm-like motion; "squirming boys"; "wiggly worms"; "writhing snakes". 2. Marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track". Noun1. The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean. 2. The act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "twisting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Two or more yarns are plied together on the frame. . twister. . to increase the diameter, tensile strength, and quality. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Both type. . crystal and ceramic. . operate on the basis of the piezoelectric effect, whereby twisting or bending of the crystal or ceramic element produces audio-output voltage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | In --. . . two or more yarns are plied together on the frame to increase the diameter, tensile strength, and quality for some particular use. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Tubes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TwistingSynonyms: squirming (adj), tortuous (adj), twisty (adj), wiggling (adj), wiggly (adj), winding (adj), wriggling (adj), wriggly (adj), writhing (adj), distortion (n), overrefinement (n), spin (n), straining (n), torture (n), twirl (n), twist (n), whirl (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Twisting |
| English words defined with "twisting": braid, buckle, bulldog ♦ contortion, convolution, Cordeling, curlicue ♦ deformation, Detortion, Draco, dragon ♦ Entwinement ♦ Flat rope ♦ Gleditsia triacanthos, Gold thread ♦ heaver, honey locust ♦ Intorsion ♦ Kneck ♦ lateral epicondylitis, lateral humeral epicondylitis, Levogyrate ♦ plait ♦ Reim ♦ squeeze, squiggle, squiggly, squirm, squirming, swirl, swirling, Swivel joint ♦ tennis elbow, Throw-crook, Thrown singles, torque, torsion, tress, tumbling, turn, twiddle, twine, Twine reeler, twiner, Twining, twirl, twist ♦ unroll, unwind ♦ volvulus ♦ warp, whirl, whirling, wiggling, wiggly, wind, wind off, winding, worm, wrench, wrester, wrestle, wriggle, wriggling, wriggly, wring, writhing, wryneck. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "twisting": Twist. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Psichosis tries a twisting Asai Moonsault (WCW Bash at the Beach; writing credit: Eric Bischoff) You sit around twisting the facts to suit your inbred theories (Kafka; writing credit: Lem Dobbs) Ow! You're twisting my arm (The Man with the Golden Gun; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Lyrics | Be as sharp as a needle that's twisting your brain (If I Wanted To; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
References | |||
Books |
| ||
Music |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Figure 26. Ball bearing swivels devised by Jules Le Blanc to prevent untimely twisting of cables, getting them caught on hull projections, or even breaking of lines. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A 5B spinning machine in the plant of an Eastern parachute manufacturer. This is the latest type doubling and twisting machine. It makes shroud lines for parachutes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Madame Dronet twisting two strands of thread into one. Erath, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The great battle with the twisting river valley : selected from the Hu County farmers' painting exhibition. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Further, during the period above mentioned the German Government shall allow the free export from Germany, and the free re-importation into Germany, exempt from all customs duties and other charges (including internal charges), of yarns, tissues, and other textile materials or textile products of any kind and in any condition, sent from Germany into the territories of Alsace or Lorraine, to be subjected there to any finishing process, such as bleaching, dyeing, printing, mercerisation, gassing, twisting or dressing. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At hard work, at twisting a cable, or turning a windlass, Jean Valjean was equal to four men. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They popped down the mountain, twisting and looping, losing the valley sometimes, and then finding it again |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I was at the pains of making ropes and cables, by twisting ten, twenty or thirty of the thickest and strongest of theirs |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | With time, other motor tics may appear such as head jerking, neck stretching, foot stamping, or body twisting and bending. (references) | |
The digestive system is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus (see figure). (references) | ||
The dystonias are movement disorders in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chile | The southern coast is a labyrinth of fjords, inlets, canals, twisting peninsulas, and islands. (references) |
Human Rights | Turkey | Commonly employed methods of torture reported by the HRF's treatment centers include: Systematic beatings; stripping and blindfolding; exposure to extreme cold or high-pressure cold water hoses; electric shocks; beatings on the soles of the feet (falaka) and genitalia; hanging by the arms; food and sleep deprivation; heavy weights hung on the body; water dripped onto the head; burns; hanging sandbags on the neck; near-suffocation by placing bags over the head; vaginal and anal rape with truncheons and, in some instances, gun barrels; squeezing and twisting of testicles; and other forms of sexual abuse. (references) |
Travel | Bahrain | In the older parts of Manama and Muharraq and in villages, many streets are narrow, twisting, and sometimes in relatively poor condition. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Twisting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.34% of the time. "Twisting" is used about 473 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 87.34% | 414 | 13,664 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.49% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.74% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.42% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 473 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "twisting": twisting moment ♦ twisting number ♦ twisting number of a DNA ♦ twisting pair. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "twisting": twisting-about-a-point. | |
Ending with "twisting": arm-twisting, tongue-twisting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "twisting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjarpërues (devious, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, tortuous, wandering, winding). (various references) | |
Arabic | لي (contortion, flection, flexion, mine, to me, torsion). (various references) | |
Chinese | 扭转 (reversed, Reversing, twisted). (various references) | |
Danish | tvindingsproces (doubling operation, folding operation, twisting operation), tvinding (double texture proofing, doubling, twist), vridning (contortion, torsion, twist, wash-out), snoning (amount of twist, lay, snake, snaking, spinning, stitch, torsion, turn, twist), kordelfremstilling. (various references) | |
Dutch | twijnen (contort), twijn (torsion, twist), torsie (torsion), torderen, werken (act, be effective, ferment, function, have effect, operate, run, vary, work, works), samendraaien van eendraadsgaren (doubling operation, folding operation, twisting operation), kabels slaan. (various references) | |
Finnish | kiertyminen (torsion), kiertymä (twist), kierteenanto, kiertäminen, kieroutuminen, kertaus (recapitulation, repetition, revision). (various references) | |
French | torsion (twist). (various references) | |
German | Torsion (torsion), Zwirnerei (doubling), Zwirnen (throw, to twine, twine), windschiefe Platte, Vordrehen, Verseilung, verschlingung (interlacing, tangle), Verdrillung (torsionally), Verdrillen (torsion), verdrehung (adjusting, contortion, cricking, distortion, misrepresentation, perversion, peversion, rolling, spraining, torsion, wrenching), verdrehende, verdrehend (contorting, contortive, distorting, misrepresenting, perverting, sophisticating), kurvig (winding), drehend (pirouetting, revving, rotary, swiveling, turning, twiddling, twirling, veering, wangling), Drehen (be about, centre on, change, concern, contort, film, fix, grind, pull, pull off, revolve, roll, rotate, shift, slew, span, spin, spun, swivel, take, throw, to revolve, to turn, to twiddle, to twirl, to twist, turn, turn around, turn round, twiddle, twirl, twist, wangle, wheel, wind, work). (various references) | |
Greek | συστροφή (contortion, torsion, twine, twirl, twist, wring), στρέψη (torsion), στρίψιμο (torsion, turn, twist), ξετρύπημα, φιδωτός (winding). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "עקמ" (distorting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csavarás (screw, torsion, twist, warping, wrenching). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemutarbalikan (distortion), celengkang-celengkok (bent, winding). (various references) | |
Italian | torsione (torsion, twist). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 捻転 (torsion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ね"て" (torsion). (various references) | |
Korean | '트. (various references) | |
Manx | lhoobagh (arching, bending, bowing, coiled, convoluted, crooked, crooked morally, curved, curvilinear, faltering, inflexional, limber, plastic, pliable, serpentine, shifty, sinuous, snakiness, supple, terry, tortuous, vermiculate, willowy, winding), kestal (spin, struggle, struggling, turn, turn as rope, wrestle; spinning, wrestling), kessey (curl, twist), jannoo lhoobagh, cassee (coiling, contortional, gyratory, serpentine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | istingtway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torcedura (laying, sprain, tweak, twist, winding, wriggle), torção (bent, kink, torsion, twist), retorcedura, operação de torção (doubling operation, folding operation, twisting operation), entrancado, empeno em hélice. (various references) | |
Russian | скручивать (curl up, twine, wring). (various references) | |
Scottish | toinneamh (spinning, the miller's share of meal for grinding, twining), suaineadh, snìomh (a ringlet, a twist, spin, spin; wind as yarn, spinning, twine, twining). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zavojit (corkscrew, cranked, spiral, tortuous, winding). (various references) | |
Spanish | torsión (torsion, twist), torcido (askew, awry, bent, crooked, distorted, furious, kinky, strained, turned, wry), torcedura (Rick, sprain, strain, twist), retortijón (cramp), retorcido (convolute, gnarled, kinky, twisted), operación de torcido (doubling operation, folding operation, twisting operation), cableado (cabling), alabeo (buckle, set, warp). (various references) | |
Swedish | vridning (swerve, torsion, turn, twist, wiggle, wind, wrench, wriggle, wring). (various references) | |
Turkish | kıvrılma (coiling, curling, inflection, inflexion, squirm), kıvırma (bend, bending, curl, curling, meandering, twist), döndürme (spinning, turning, veer, winding, wring), burulma (buckling, contortion, torsion, writhing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крутіння (twist), викручування, обмотування, звивання. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ambitiosa, tortuosum, volubiles. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | pirlyng. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 15, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai enduousin auton porfuran kai peritiqeasin autw plexanteV akanqinon stefanon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et induunt eum purpuram et inponunt ei plectentes spineam coronam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & scridden hine mid purpren & him onsetten þernene helm awundene. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And clothiden hym with purpur. And thei writhen a coroun of thornes, and puttiden on hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they clothed him with purple and they platted a croune of thornes and crouned him with all |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 15, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Ug ilang gisul-oban siyag kapa nga mapula, ug sa nakalukong silag purong-purong nga sampinit, kini ilang gipahiluna diha kaniya. |
| Chinese | 他 們 給 他 穿 上 紫 袍 、 又 " 荊 棘 編 作 冕 給 他 戴 上 ． |
| Croatian | i zaogrnu ga grimizom; spletu trnov vijenac i stave mu na glavu |
| Danish | Og de iføre ham en Purpurkappe og flette en Tornekrone og sætte den på ham. |
| Dutch | En deden Hem een purperen mantel aan, en een doornenkroon gevlochten hebbende, zetten Hem die op; |
| Finnish | Ja he pukivat hänen yllensä purppuravaipan, väänsivät orjantappuroista kruunun ja panivat sen hänen päähänsä |
| French | Ils le revêtirent de pourpre, et posèrent sur sa tête une couronne d`épines, qu`ils avaient tressée. |
| Gaelic | Agus dh` eid iad e le purpur, `sa fighe crun dreighinn chuir iad air e. |
| German | und zogen ihm einen Purpur an und flochten eine dornene Krone und setzten sie ihm auf, |
| Hungarian | És bíborba öltözteték õt, és tövisbõl font koszorút tevének a fejére, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu mereka mengenakan jubah ungu pada Yesus, dan membuat mahkota dari ranting-ranting berduri, kemudian memasangnya pada kepala Yesus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dikenakannya kepada Yesus jubah ungu, dan dianyamkannya suatu makota daripada duri, serta dibubuhkannya di kepala-Nya. |
| Italian | Lo rivestirono di porpora e, dopo aver intrecciato una corona di spine, gliela misero sul capo. |
| Maori | Ka whakakahuria ia ki te kakahu papura, a, ka oti tetahi karauna tataramoa te whiri, ka potaea ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | og de klædde ham i en purpurkappe, og flettet en tornekrone og satte på ham, |
| Portuguese | vestiram-no de púrpura e puseram-lhe na cabeça uma coroa de espinhos que haviam tecido; |
| Rumanian | L-au kmbrqcat kntr`o hainq de purpurq, au kmpletit o cununq de spini, wi I-au pus -o pe cap. |
| Russian | Й П"ЕМЙ еЗП Ч 'БЗТСОЙ"Х, Й, У МЕФЫЙ ФЕТОПЧЩК ЧЕОЕ", ЧПЪМПЦЙМЙ ОБ оЕЗП; |
| Shuar | Ashí Káunkar, pushin kapaanniun Jesusan aentsrarmiayi. Tawasap janki najanamun etsenkrumtikiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Le vistieron de púrpura; y habiendo entretejido una corona de espinas, se la pusieron |
| Swahili | Wakamvika vazi la rangi ya zambarau, wakasokota taji ya miiba, wakamwekea kichwani. |
| Swedish | Och de klädde på honom en purpurfärgad mantel och vredo samman en krona av törnen och satte den på honom. |
| Uma | Ra'uncoi' -imi hante baju to mperelei to hewa baju magau'. Rababehi hameha' songko ngkai walaa to morui to hewa songko magau', pai' rasongkoi-ki. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "twisting": twistings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "twisting": entwisting, intertwisting, intwisting, retwisting, untwisting. (additional references) | |
| |
"Twisting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Twisdton, twisten. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "twisting" (pronounced twi"sting) |
| 5 | -i" s t i ng | assisting, coexisting, consisting, delisting, enlisting, existing, insisting, listing, persisting, preexisting, resisting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, adjusting, arresting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, casting, coasting, composting, contesting, contrasting, costing, cresting, defrosting, digesting, disgusting, divesting, dusting, encrusting, entrusting, everlasting, exhausting, fasting, feasting, forecasting, frosting, gusting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, ingesting, interesting, investing, jousting, lambasting, lasting, lusting, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, posting, protesting, readjusting, recasting, reinvesting, requesting, resting, retesting, roasting, rusting, suggesting, tasting, testing, thrusting, toasting, trusting, typecasting, uninteresting, vesting, wasting, wresting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wittings. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-s-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: intwist, nitwits, sitting, wisting, witting. | |
-2 letters: gittin, nitwit, siting, wising, witing. | |
-3 letters: intis, sting, stint, swing, tings, tints, titis, twigs, twins, twist, twits, wings. | |
-4 letters: gins, gist, gits, inti, iwis, nisi, nits, sign, sing, snit, swig, ting, tins, tint, titi, twig, twin, twit, wigs, wing, wins, wist, wits. | |
-5 letters: gin, git, ins, its, nit, sin. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-s-t-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twistings. | |
+2 letters: entwisting, intwisting, retwisting, untwisting, whittlings. | |
+4 letters: ghostwriting, typewritings, wainscotting, withstanding. | |
+5 letters: intertwisting, sportswriting, wainscottings, whipstitching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
