House-Raising is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 1319 anagrams from letters in house-raising (-aeghiinorssu).
An Americanism dating back to 1695-1705
He was reputed to have used it as one many a time at a house-raising.
At the house-raising a good dinner was provided, and of course, plenty of liquor.
It showed itself in all the petty details of daily life, in assistance in housework and in the field, in house-raising.
And he talked about a house-raising while the weather held fine, and before snow.
Meantime the sixteen that were left went on as they best might with their task, and on October 2nd they had a house-raising.
The next day ushered in a crisis in the affairs of the would-be stationers—the house-raising began.
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