b 3 r 1 i 1 s 1 t 1 l 1 e 1
7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
noun a stiff hair
verb be in a state of movement or action
originFrom Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, from Old English bristl, byrst, *brystl, *byrstel, from Proto-West Germanic *burstilu, diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fastīgium (“top”), Polish…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- bestir 8
- birles 8
- bister 8
- bistre 8
- biters 8
- blites 8
- libers 8
- riblet 8
- tribes 8
- belts 7
- besit 7
- biers 7