Bristle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 251 anagrams from letters in bristle (beilrst).
before 1000; Middle English bristel, equivalent to brist (Old English byrst bristle, cognate with German Borste, Old Norse burst) + -el diminutive suffix
Americans tend to bristle even at self-censorship; we are reluctant to declare that we simply are not going to look at something.
In fact, so complete was his recovery, he later allowed himself to bristle at comparisons with Spitzer.
How was he to know that this thing that sniffed was a thing at which to bristle?
Hill began to bristle and to look around in search of the one who had spoken.
The whole place, behind the fence, appeared to bristle and resound.
And they bristle too at the notion that they had some kind of personal enmity toward the president.
The mane on his back began to bristle, and I knew that I had but a small second in which to act.
Of course there are those who bristle at such neologisms—the scolds, the conservative prescriptivists, the SNOOTs.
Republicans, meanwhile, bristle with anger as they attempt to defend against the flood of new information.
Pete bristled—as much as a fat man could bristle on so hot a day.