Bristles is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for BRISTLES in dictionary:

VERB:

BRISTLE, 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

NOUN:

a stiff animal hair, or a man-made substitute, used to make a brush
a short, stiff hair on an animal's skin or a man's face.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to rise stiffly

Words related to BRISTLES

bristle9 bristled11 bristling12

How to use BRISTLES in a sentence

At the time of his death Sir Horace Fewbanks was 58 years of age, but since death the grey bristles had grown so rapidly through his clean-shaven face that he looked much older.
He was close to the opening when a sudden fresh scent came to him, and he grew rigid, and his bristles stood up.
She had a blissful consciousness that, had she been examined, indications of angelic wings, and not bristles, would have been discovered under her blouse.
Westley Keyts is our butcher, a good, honest, energetic, downright business man with a square forehead and a blunt jaw and red hair that bristles with challenges.
Then she has a great beard that bristles through it, and makes her look as if she were plastered with lime and hair, let me perish.
Bristles! FIRST GENTLEMAN He looks as fierce as a hog in armour.
I suppose I need not tell you that the fruit is within a burr covered with sharp, stiff bristles which are not handled with impunity.
The problem no doubt bristles with difficulties, but that is no reason why we should sit down before it and fold our hands in despair.
Her head, wrapped in a cheap and ragged checked cotton kerchief, was horrid with rebellious locks of hair, like the bristles of a wild boar.
In a moment both these magnificent animals, their bristles erect, and all their tusks flashing fiercely in the lamp-light, were locked in the death-grapple.

As she did, the bristles dropped away and the limbs of the man were seen.
His head was not large, but it was as round as an apple, with heavy cheek-bones, little eyes, close-cut hair, and a mustache like the bristles of a blacking-brush.
The court brushed aside the legal bristles, and hanged the four seamen on the evidence of the mate and the cook.
There are many fallacies in the application of any of these tests, and the whole subject bristles with difficulties.
In a moment the smell of burning bristles betrayed the object of this procedure.
The tail is, however, often omitted as well as the erect line of bristles down the back.
The dialogue is often brilliant, and bristles with telling points.
This is the ordinary method of removing the bristles.
One should use a vertical or up-and-down movement, so that the bristles will reach the crevices between the teeth.
The back is clothed with hair intermixed with sharp spines or bristles.
From that time to this Gibraltar has remained an outpost of Great Britain, with whose outlying strongholds the whole world bristles.
And beholding the forms of those bows, so like unto sighing snakes, he become afflicted with fear and in a moment the bristles of his body stood on their ends.
Finish the cleaning by scrubbing with turpentine and a brush having stiff bristles.
It only bristles with forts raised against wandering Indians.
The smithy hearth befires a workshop which bristles with black objects.
The skin becomes pale, sweat breaks out, and the hair bristles.
Its yellow bristles, rather a mane than a head of hair, covered and concealed a lofty brow, evidently made to contain thought.
He rubbed her cheek with his own, so that she could feel the soft bristles of his shaven beard.

Similar words containing BRISTLE without suffix s

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