Hissing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HISSING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make a sharp sibilant sound as of the letter s
• (of a person) make a sibilant sound as a sign of disapproval or derision
• express disapproval of (someone) by hissing
• whisper something in an urgent or angry way
NOUN:
• an object of scorn
• a sibilant sound used to convey disapproval or derision
• electrical interference at audio frequencies
• The act of emitting a hiss or hisses.
• The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.
• a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
• a sharp sibilant sound
ADJECTIVE:
• making a hiss
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make a sibilant sound

Words related to HISSING

hiss7 hissed10 hisses9 hissingly16 hissings12 sibilant10

Words that contain HISSING

hissings12 whissing15 hissingly16

How to use HISSING in a sentence

• A hissing noise was suddenly heard outside, and the next moment a stream of water shot through the aperture, and descended in a perfect deluge on the heads of the company.
• From out of it there leaped that lightning tongue of flame that Kazan had always dreaded, and he heard the hissing song of the death-bee over his head.
• Nearer and nearer it swelled, crashing and hissing as it approached.
• Nature is fairly routed and driven from the field, and the rattling, crackling, hissing, spitting demon has taken possession of Lockport for ever.
• The town was blotted out, and fifty feet ahead of the hissing nose of the launch Alan could see only a gray wall.
• The giants of the forest fell, groaning, into the boiling, swirling flood which leapt to catch them and swallowed them up with a hideous, hissing noise.
• There was no need to be uneasy, for he drew himself up to his full height, made a hissing noise in his throat, and spat fiercely at my shadow.
• I looked overboard and saw white foam hissing along the surface of water rapidly widening between us and the quay.
• Something like a winged white flame escaped from it, and flew hissing through the air to the sun.
• But in the cold weather, when the river is calm, the ear is attracted at once by the hissing puff of expiration, and the animal may be seen to bound almost out of the water.
• She began to chatter to her mother at an amazing rate, trying repeatedly to imitate the hissing sound which the Latin races always perceive in Anglo-Saxon speech.
• He drew a quick, hissing breath, and bending forward, directed the light into the interior of the ancient coffin.
• He aimed the hissing bottle, fumbling for the manual valve.
• It was a perilous ride down that red slope, not so much from the hissing bullets as from the washes and gullies which Silvermane sailed over in magnificent leaps.
• He suddenly turned and glided back up the Crooked Little Path, hissing angrily.
• If the mouth is not much opened, whilst the lips are considerably protruded, a blowing, hissing, or whistling noise is produced.
• Racing on over the uneven swells he felt the hissing spray, and the malignant tips of the waves that broke their fury on the boat and expended it in a shower of stinging drops.
• He heard the hissing and shrieking of shells over his head and he saw them bursting in Chastel.

Similar words containing HISS without suffix ing

hiss7 hissy11 whiss11 hissed10 hisser9 hisses9 hisself13 hissers10 hissier10 hissies10 whissed14 whisses13 hissiest11 hissings12 whissing15 hissingly16 blanchisseuse20 blanchisseuses21

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