Tempering
verb
- To moderate or control.
"Temper your language around children."
- To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
"Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature."
- To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
1 word can be made by rearranging all the letters of "tempering":
+1 Letter Anagrams
Words formed by adding one letter to "tempering" and rearranging:
Total: 14 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Tempering"
Tempering is a 9-letter word that scores 14 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "tempering" can be rearranged to form 1 other valid word.
Using "Tempering" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "tempering" is a medium-scoring word.