Bristle is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for BRISTLE in dictionary:

VERB:

to stand erect stiffly
(of hair or fur) stand upright away from the skin, typically as a sign of anger or fear
(of an animal) react in such a way that its hair or fur stands on end
(of a person) react angrily or defensively
be covered with or abundant in
To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
To show defiance or indignation.

be in a state of movement or action
rise up as in fear
have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles
react in an offended or angry manner
(cause to) stand up like bristles

NOUN:

a stiff animal hair, or a man-made substitute, used to make a brush
short stiff hair
A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
a stiff hair
a short, stiff hair on an animal's skin or a man's face.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to rise stiffly

Words related to BRISTLE

birse7 bristled11 bristlelike17 bristles10 bristlier11 bristliest12 bristliness13 bristling12 bristly12

Words that contain BRISTLE

bristled11 bristles10 bristlecone15 bristlelike17 bristletail13 bristlecones16 bristletails14

How to use BRISTLE in a sentence

Then we stripped the mask with its bristle of long whiskers, took the gall, and dragged the carcass into the surf where it was devoured by fish.
The offices of the Post, the Telegraph and Telephone bristle with women, of course, for eleven thousand have taken the places of men.
Dense bristle clouded the lower features of his face.
His works and his memoirs bristle with information concerning the actual truths of border life and Indian warfare, bereft of romance and exaggeration.
Actually it was a masterpiece of cunning calculation, a thing which clear-visioned persons might see to bristle with intention on every side.
Our highways both in and out of cities are filled with things that cut, and bristle with wire-nails.
With a cry of rage, a flash of white teeth, and a bristle of short neck- hair, he sprang for the black.
Behind her, Bashti placed Wiwau, who was armed with a bristle of bamboo splints mounted on a light long shaft of bamboo.
Eastward and southward bristle the Slavs, and behind the Slavs are the colossal possibilities of Asia.
Ragged mountains lift up to meet it, plains puff out chests, the sea a carnival of light, ice packs bristle, glaciers growl.

I left them standing all alone, with nothing but the empty night to bristle at.
They are in general perfectly wild, and when encountered suddenly bristle up like an enraged porcupine.
Fasten a stiff bristle to a tuning fork by means of wax, allowing the end of the point to rest lightly upon a piece of smoked glass.
His brows are knitted, his eyes flame, his beard seems to bristle with rage.
Rayner seemed to bristle every time she approached her sister.
The gentle vessels now bristle fiercely with death-dealing instruments.
Twice we saw great fires burning amid the snow, and around them a thick bristle of long poles.
Gibraltar itself does not bristle more completely with mouths of fire.
A bristle sponge with a worm in its end, for ordinary use in firing.
Here are the principal fortifications of the city, and whichever way we turn the shores bristle with guns.
His shirt was hanging open, and his emaciated chest, covered with yellow bristle, rose and fell horribly.
Then he saw us and dropped down again on all-fours, the shaggy hair on his neck and shoulders seeming to bristle as he turned toward us.
The hill bristle with small split blocks, with peaks half overturned, with rough and denuded mounds.
A true beauty and a needed utility may bristle on first collision but they soon make friends.
It carried a bristle of 15-mm machine-guns, and two of the eight 50-mm rocket-tubes on either side were empty and freshly smoke-stained.
Rokeby was smoking, alone, in the dining-room early in the evening, when the dog began to bristle up his hair, and bark.
We lean our backs against the walls, resting the packs on the projections which bristle from them.
They are separated by frontiers of gulfs, which bristle with weapons and explosive snares, impassable to life.
On the instant it let out a cry of rage and its back commenced to bristle.
The naked feet of an extended corpse seem, as it were, to bristle.
How often does the dog start suddenly, and bristle up its hair, when nothing is in sight, or within hearing distance.
Earthworks, batteries, redoubts seemed to bristle every where.
This is a trouble-some charge, forever to bristle up in the path-way of a silver standard.

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