Nightmare is valid Scrabble Word

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

9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for NIGHTMARE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a bad dream
a frightening or unpleasant dream
a very unpleasant or frightening experience or prospect
a person or situation that is very difficult to deal with
very bad dream
A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.
Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
a situation resembling a terrifying dream
a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an evil spirit formerly thought to oppress people during sleep

Words related to NIGHTMARE

cauchemar18 nightmares16 nightmary18 oneirodynia15

Words that contain NIGHTMARE

nightmares16

How to use NIGHTMARE in a sentence

I knew where I was, from the rush of the air by my ears, but all else was a nightmare.
He sat up with an idea that he had dropped into a nightmare, gave his horse the slightest touch of the whip, spoke to it and peered again over the hedge.
Therefore he set off to meet her in London, that he might lose no time in bringing her to Nightmare Abbey.
I felt that sort of nightmare which sometimes seizes one during the night, when you think you are always marching and never advancing.
Its very position suggested an accident to my mind, and so fell in with my theory of a nightmare.
From the foundation of the government to the Rebellion, the horrible nightmare of a possible slave insurrection had brooded over the entire South.
In the nightmare of his intoxication he welcomed the change.
The monster now dragged its shiny bulk upon the rock, and except in a nightmare surely no man had beheld such a creature before.
He is an English artist, Sydney Bramshaw by name, and he affected me then like a terrible night-mare.
They are all to be brushed aside as phantoms of nightmare or artificial creations of fiction.

Was this a continuation of the nightmare of the afternoon? There was a roar just behind their ears as it seemed.
From the earliest settlement of the place, this fact had been, next to the Indians, the reigning nightmare of the inhabitants.
Yet am I ready to sacrifice everything, to brave everything, to bring utter ruin on my fortune, if only I can rid myself of this nightmare of shame.
Watering and feeding the horses was a horrible nightmare, but somehow it was done.
When the great conflagration did break out, therefore, the nightmare far surpassed the worst fears of thoughtful minds.
Keep this to yourself, for it may prove a nightmare.
If I hov not seen her den I was a nightmare und she was mad.
Instead of feeling afraid, she was in a nightmare of sorrow.
Another point in favour of the teachers in elementary schools, is their freedom from the burden of extraneous duties, and from the nightmare of external examinations.
That seems to me the life of a man suffering from a sort of nightmare.
Each is a nightmare of a different breed, but no sooner does one bound from the saddle, before the other puts in an appearance and compels its victim to a performance.
Keith was straining every muscle now, but it was like running in a nightmare.
I have heard stories that sound like the nightmare, of their fighting desperately with those deadly creatures, rattlesnakes.
The abandoned town over which Germans and French had fought oppressed him like a nightmare.
I was happy when I awoke and realised it was only a nightmare.
He complained one day that he was much worse, that three nights before he had had the worst nightmare of his life.
Because any sort of work, even menial work, would be a relief after that nightmare tour.

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