Definitions for dandruff

dandruff dan·druff

Spelling: [dan-druh f]
IPA: /ˈdæn drəf/

Dandruff is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in dandruff (addffnru).

Definitions for dandruff

noun

  1. a seborrheic scurf that forms on the scalp and comes off in small scales.

Origin of dandruff

First recorded in 1535-45; origin uncertain

Examples for dandruff

This affection is characterized by an excessive production and detachment of dry scales from the surface of the skin (dandruff).

When the hair is excessively oily or the scalp unusually crowded with dandruff, the weekly shampoo should not be neglected.

He looked more the fashionable club man than ever, though he did have a slight sprinkling of dandruff on his coat collar.

They have a good deal of dander (dandruff) for sich little vipers!

"No more fuzzy hair for me, no red tie, no dandruff," he had said on his return from Paris.

His reddish-brown hair was free of dandruff, his blue eyes clear.

Link picked at the label of his beer bottle and added to the dandruff of shredded paper in the ashtray before him.

The dandruff which detaches from the skin within the escutcheon of the first order is yellowish or copperish color.

Nothing is better for cleansing the hair from dust and dandruff.

To be bald is no more than a genial jocosity, a harmless foible—but to have dandruff is almost as bad as to have beri-beri.

Word Value for dandruff
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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