hair

hair is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 6 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
2. noun. One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
3. noun. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
4. noun. A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
5. noun. An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
6. noun. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
7. noun. A haircloth.
8. noun. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
9. noun. a filamentous projection or process on an organism
10. noun. cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

    Synonyms: haircloth

11. noun. any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

    "there is a hair in my soup"

    Synonyms: pilus

12. noun. a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss

    "he combed his hair"

    "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"

13. noun. filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

    "peach fuzz"

    Synonyms: fuzz, tomentum

14. noun. a very small distance or space

    "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"

    "they lost the election by a whisker"

    Synonyms: hairsbreadth, whisker

Synonyms

haircloth, pilus, fuzz, tomentum, hairsbreadth, whisker

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hair:

ahir

Common word forms

hairs, haired, hairen, hairless

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for HAIR lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.