Definition of receiving

"receiving" in the verb sense

1. receive, have

get something come into possession of

"receive payment"

"receive a gift"

"receive letters from the front"

2. receive, get, find, obtain, incur

receive a specified treatment (abstract

"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

"His movie received a good review"

"I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

3. pick up, receive

register (perceptual input

"pick up a signal"

4. experience, receive, have, get

go through (mental or physical states or experiences

"get an idea"

"experience vertigo"

"get nauseous"

"receive injuries"

"have a feeling"

5. receive, take in, invite

express willingness to have in one's home or environs

"The community warmly received the refugees"

6. receive

accept as true or valid

"He received Christ"

7. welcome, receive

bid welcome to greet upon arrival

8. receive

convert into sounds or pictures

"receive the incoming radio signals"

9. meet, encounter, receive

experience as a reaction

"My proposal met with much opposition"

10. receive

have or give a reception

"The lady is receiving Sunday morning"

11. get, receive

receive as a retribution or punishment

"He got 5 years in prison"

12. receive

partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

13. receive

regard favorably or with disapproval

"Her new collection of poems was not well received"

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Quotations for receiving

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. [ Joseph Roux ]

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture. [ Sterne ]

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [ Sallust ]

We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. [ Carlyle ]

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. [ Ruskin ]

Samuel Gardner was blind in one eye and in a moment of confusion he stepped out of a receiving and discharging door in one of the warehouses into the ineffable glories of the celestial sphere. [ Epitaph ]

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision! [ Charnock ]

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike; and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. [ Ruskin ]

receiving in Scrabble®

The word receiving is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters receiving:

RECEIVING
(171)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (5 words)

generic, reeving, reicing, veering, veinier

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word receiving

RECEIVING
(171)
RECEIVING
(144)
RECEIVING
(114)
RECEIVING
(96)
RECEIVING
(64)
RECEIVING
(60)
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(54)
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RECEIVING
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(46)
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(34)
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RECEIVING
(18)
RECEIVING
(18)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In receiving

RECEIVING
(171)
RECEIVING
(144)
RECEIVING
(114)
RECEIVING
(96)
REEVING
(95 = 45 + 50)
REEVING
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VEERING
(95 = 45 + 50)
REEVING
(94 = 44 + 50)
VEERING
(94 = 44 + 50)
VEINIER
(92 = 42 + 50)
VEINIER
(90 = 40 + 50)
GENERIC
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REICING
(90 = 40 + 50)
REICING
(89 = 39 + 50)
VEERING
(89 = 39 + 50)
GENERIC
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REEVING
(89 = 39 + 50)
REICING
(89 = 39 + 50)
REEVING
(86 = 36 + 50)
VEERING
(86 = 36 + 50)
VEERING
(86 = 36 + 50)
VEERING
(86 = 36 + 50)
GENERIC
(86 = 36 + 50)
REEVING
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VEERING
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REICING
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VEERING
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REEVING
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VEERING
(86 = 36 + 50)
REEVING
(86 = 36 + 50)
REEVING
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VEINIER
(83 = 33 + 50)
REICING
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GENERIC
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VEINIER
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VEINIER
(83 = 33 + 50)
VEINIER
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GENERIC
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VEINIER
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GENERIC
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GENERIC
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VEINIER
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REICING
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VEINIER
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VEERING
(83 = 33 + 50)
REICING
(83 = 33 + 50)
REEVING
(83 = 33 + 50)
GENERIC
(83 = 33 + 50)
GENERIC
(83 = 33 + 50)
REICING
(83 = 33 + 50)
REICING
(83 = 33 + 50)
VEERING
(82 = 32 + 50)
GENERIC
(80 = 30 + 50)
VEERING
(80 = 30 + 50)
VEINIER
(80 = 30 + 50)
VEERING
(80 = 30 + 50)
REICING
(80 = 30 + 50)
VEINIER
(80 = 30 + 50)
REEVING
(78 = 28 + 50)
GENERIC
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VEINIER
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VEERING
(78 = 28 + 50)
VEINIER
(78 = 28 + 50)
REEVING
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REEVING
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VEERING
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VEERING
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VEERING
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REICING
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VEERING
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REEVING
(76 = 26 + 50)
REEVING
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VEINIER
(74 = 24 + 50)
GENERIC
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REICING
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VEINIER
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REICING
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REICING
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VEERING
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VEINIER
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VEERING
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REICING
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REICING
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REICING
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VEERING
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VEERING
(72 = 22 + 50)
GENERIC
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VEINIER
(72 = 22 + 50)
VEINIER
(72 = 22 + 50)
REICING
(72 = 22 + 50)
REEVING
(72 = 22 + 50)
GENERIC
(72 = 22 + 50)
VEINIER
(72 = 22 + 50)
VEINIER
(72 = 22 + 50)
GENERIC
(72 = 22 + 50)
REEVING
(72 = 22 + 50)
VEINIER
(72 = 22 + 50)
VEINIER
(72 = 22 + 50)
REICING
(72 = 22 + 50)
VEERING
(72 = 22 + 50)
REICING
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REICING
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VEERING
(72 = 22 + 50)
REICING
(72 = 22 + 50)
REEVING
(72 = 22 + 50)
REEVING
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REICING
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GENERIC
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VEERING
(72 = 22 + 50)
REEVING
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VEERING
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GENERIC
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VEINIER
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VEINIER
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GENERIC
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VEINIER
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REICING
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GENERIC
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VEINIER
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VEINIER
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REICING
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REEVING
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VEERING
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GENERIC
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VEERING
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REEVING
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VEERING
(67 = 17 + 50)
REEVING
(66 = 16 + 50)
VEERING
(66 = 16 + 50)
REEVING
(66 = 16 + 50)
GENERIC
(66 = 16 + 50)
GENERIC
(66 = 16 + 50)
REICING
(66 = 16 + 50)
GENERIC
(66 = 16 + 50)
VEINIER
(66 = 16 + 50)
REICING
(66 = 16 + 50)
VEINIER
(66 = 16 + 50)
REEVING
(65 = 15 + 50)
REEVING
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REEVING
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VEERING
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VEINIER
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REEVING
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REEVING
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VEINIER
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REICING
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GENERIC
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REEVING
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REICING
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REICING
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REICING
(64 = 14 + 50)
RECEIVING
(64)
GENERIC
(64 = 14 + 50)
REICING
(64 = 14 + 50)
REICING
(64 = 14 + 50)
VEINIER
(64 = 14 + 50)
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REICING
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VEERING
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VEERING
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VEERING
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REICING
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GENERIC
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REEVING
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REEVING
(63 = 13 + 50)
VEERING
(62 = 12 + 50)
GENERIC
(62 = 12 + 50)

receiving in Words With Friends™

The word receiving is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 19

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters receiving:

RECEIVING
(279)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (5 words)

generic, reeving, reicing, veering, veinier

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word receiving

RECEIVING
(279)
RECEIVING
(174)
RECEIVING
(126)
RECEIVING
(99)
RECEIVING
(88)
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(87)
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(87)
RECEIVING
(84)
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(81)
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(80)
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(80)
RECEIVING
(76)
RECEIVING
(76)
RECEIVING
(69)
RECEIVING
(69)
RECEIVING
(58)
RECEIVING
(54)
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(54)
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(54)
RECEIVING
(46)
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(46)
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(46)
RECEIVING
(42)
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(42)
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(42)
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(40)
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(38)
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(38)
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(38)
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(38)
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(38)
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(38)
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(31)
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(29)
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(27)
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(27)
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(26)
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(25)
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(25)
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(22)
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(22)
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(22)
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(22)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(20)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In receiving

RECEIVING
(279)
RECEIVING
(174)
RECEIVING
(126)
REEVING
(119 = 84 + 35)
VEERING
(113 = 78 + 35)
REEVING
(113 = 78 + 35)
REICING
(110 = 75 + 35)
REEVING
(107 = 72 + 35)
VEINIER
(107 = 72 + 35)
VEERING
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REEVING
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REICING
(104 = 69 + 35)
GENERIC
(104 = 69 + 35)
GENERIC
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VEINIER
(101 = 66 + 35)
REEVING
(101 = 66 + 35)
VEERING
(101 = 66 + 35)
RECEIVING
(99)
REICING
(98 = 63 + 35)
REICING
(98 = 63 + 35)
REICING
(98 = 63 + 35)
GENERIC
(98 = 63 + 35)
VEERING
(95 = 60 + 35)
VEERING
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REEVING
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REICING
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GENERIC
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REEVING
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VEERING
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REEVING
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VEERING
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VEINIER
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VEERING
(89 = 54 + 35)
VEINIER
(89 = 54 + 35)
RECEIVING
(88)
REICING
(87 = 52 + 35)
GENERIC
(87 = 52 + 35)
REICING
(87 = 52 + 35)
GENERIC
(87 = 52 + 35)
REICING
(87 = 52 + 35)
RECEIVING
(87)
RECEIVING
(87)
GENERIC
(87 = 52 + 35)
GENERIC
(86 = 51 + 35)
GENERIC
(86 = 51 + 35)
REICING
(86 = 51 + 35)
REICING
(86 = 51 + 35)
RECEIVING
(84)
VEINIER
(83 = 48 + 35)
VEINIER
(83 = 48 + 35)
REEVING
(83 = 48 + 35)
VEINIER
(83 = 48 + 35)
VEINIER
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VEERING
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VEINIER
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VEINIER
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REEVING
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VEERING
(83 = 48 + 35)
VEERING
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RECEIVING
(81)
RECEIVING
(80)
REICING
(80 = 45 + 35)
GENERIC
(80 = 45 + 35)
GENERIC
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RECEIVING
(80)
GENERIC
(80 = 45 + 35)
GENERIC
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REICING
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VEINIER
(79 = 44 + 35)
GENERIC
(77 = 42 + 35)
VEINIER
(77 = 42 + 35)
VEINIER
(77 = 42 + 35)
VEINIER
(77 = 42 + 35)
RECEIVING
(76)
RECEIVING
(76)
REEVING
(75 = 40 + 35)
RIVING
(75)
VIRGIN
(75)
VEERING
(75 = 40 + 35)
VEERING
(73 = 38 + 35)
REICING
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GENERIC
(73 = 38 + 35)
EVINCE
(72)
REEVING
(71 = 36 + 35)
VEERING
(71 = 36 + 35)
VIRGIN
(69)
VEINIER
(69 = 34 + 35)
REICING
(69 = 34 + 35)
ENVIER
(69)
RIVING
(69)
GENERIC
(69 = 34 + 35)
GENERIC
(69 = 34 + 35)
RECEIVING
(69)
RECEIVING
(69)
VEERING
(69 = 34 + 35)
REEVING
(69 = 34 + 35)
VIRGIN
(69)
VEERING
(67 = 32 + 35)
VEERING
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VEERING
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REICING
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VEERING
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GENERIC
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REEVING
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REEVING
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REEVING
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EVINCE
(66)
GRIEVE
(66)
IRENIC
(66)
REGIVE
(66)
CRINGE
(66)
CERING
(66)
RICING
(66)
REICING
(65 = 30 + 35)
VEERING
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VEERING
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REICING
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REICING
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REEVING
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REEVING
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REICING
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GENERIC
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VEERING
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GENERIC
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VEERING
(63 = 28 + 35)
VEERING
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VEERING
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VEERING
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ENVIER
(63)
VEINIER
(63 = 28 + 35)
GENERIC
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VEERING
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GENERIC
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REEVING
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VEERING
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GENERIC
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VEINIER
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VEINIER
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VEINIER
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REEVING
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REICING
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VEERING
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REICING
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REEVING
(63 = 28 + 35)
VERGE
(63)
REICING
(63 = 28 + 35)
VEINIER
(63 = 28 + 35)
RIVING
(63)
VICE
(63)
REICING
(63 = 28 + 35)
REICING
(61 = 26 + 35)
REICING
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REICING
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REICING
(61 = 26 + 35)
GENERIC
(61 = 26 + 35)
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REICING
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GENERIC
(61 = 26 + 35)
GENERIC
(61 = 26 + 35)
GENERIC
(61 = 26 + 35)
GENERIC
(61 = 26 + 35)
GENERIC
(61 = 26 + 35)
REICING
(61 = 26 + 35)
VEINIER
(61 = 26 + 35)
VEINIER
(61 = 26 + 35)
VEERING
(61 = 26 + 35)
VEINIER
(61 = 26 + 35)
VEINIER
(61 = 26 + 35)
VEINIER
(61 = 26 + 35)
GRIEVE
(60)
CERING
(60)
VEERING
(60 = 25 + 35)
RICING
(60)
RICING
(60)
REGIVE
(60)
GENERIC
(60 = 25 + 35)
CRINGE
(60)
CERING
(60)
EVINCE
(60)
NERVE
(60)
REEVING
(59 = 24 + 35)
VEINIER
(59 = 24 + 35)

Words within the letters of receiving

2 letter words in receiving (3 words)

3 letter words in receiving (11 words)

6 letter words in receiving (10 words)

7 letter words in receiving (5 words)

9 letter words in receiving (1 word)

receiving + 1 blank (2 words)

receiving + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence receiving

Words that start with receiving (2 words)

Words with receiving in them (1 word)

Words that end with receiving (1 word)

Word Growth involving receiving

Shorter words in receiving

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Longer words containing receiving

receivings