Stifling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 152 anagrams from letters in stifling (fgiilnst).
First recorded in 1550-60; stifle1 + -ing2
"I am stifling," said the dying man, rolling round his ghastly eyes.
The monster tech firms are stifling competition and consolidating their power while they expand into new markets.
He raised his arms to heaven, he was stifling with envy and vexation.
The atmosphere was stifling as a night in the rains by reason of the steam and the crowd.
A creeping sense develops that Judy fled not just a stifling culture but a genuine existential threat.
The hot, searching, stifling African day took possession of the world.
“We want to take this around the world,” Gary says, stifling a yawn.
A name like that might ease some of the pressure of living under such a stifling state.
It was a low room, and though not many were present, the air was stifling.
And nothing squelches education, or the desire for education, like stifling discourse.