Curtain-Raiser is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 1317 anagrams from letters in curtain-raiser (-aaceiinrrrstu).
First recorded in 1885-90
There was no curtain-raiser, and the first act was well constructed and interesting from the commencement.
They had made, Ted Hunter announced, a very short mystery reel which they would now run as a curtain-raiser to the main event.
The curtain-raiser was over, and very nice too; now for the drama.
This, to be sure, is only the curtain-raiser to the pleasures to follow.
It is my opinion that your part in the affair is only a curtain-raiser to graver things.
The actors in the curtain-raiser were returning to their dressing-rooms.
But its curtain-raiser, Dusk, is to be retained for the revival of Magic.
Maybe you could make a one-act tragedy out of it for a curtain-raiser.
But if you don't know how easy it is, it looks like a curtain-raiser for manslaughter.
He almost wished he had not followed the curtain-raiser with his own stronger drama.
9
12