Definitions for hair-raising

hair-raising hair-rais·ing

Spelling: [hair-rey-zing]
IPA: /ˈhɛərˌreɪ zɪŋ/

Hair-Raising is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in hair-raising (-aaghiiinrrs).

Definitions for hair-raising

adjective

  1. terrifying or horrifying:

Origin of hair-raising

First recorded in 1895-1900

Examples for hair-raising

It was a hair-raising coast, but we made the brink without a spill.

Piercing, hair-raising, unnatural as they were, Mr. Budlong recognized them.

The way that Spot walked into those dogs and gave them what-for was hair-raising.

No one knew where he could have possibly heard the hair-raising phrase.

The yells which accompanied it were hair-raising as the shrieks from a band of maniacs.

The explosive finale, when demonic fans run amok at a movie premiere, is hair-raising in its viciousness.

Very little excited Jay, not even his own hair-raising habit of reading while he drove.

One fellow, I forget his name, has a most hair-raising theory.

It was a hair-raising proposition, but perhaps—just perhaps—not quite so suicidal as it looked.

In a hair-raising series of events, he was able to get a ticket to the United States and get out of Uganda.

Word Value for hair-raising
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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