Phrase Hound found 39 phrases and 36 compound words that contain hairs. The most common are listed below. Open hairs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 39
- split hairsTedious details; minutiae.
- have someone by the short hairsTo have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled.
- baby hairsplural of baby hair: A fine, wispy strand of hair at the edge of a person's (usually a woman's) hairline.
- body hairsplural of body hair: Hair of the body; in particular, androgenic hair, to the exclusion of facial hair and the hair atop one's head.
- ear hairsplural of ear hair: The terminal hair arising from the follicular cartilage inside the external auditory meatus in a human being.
- facial hairsplural of facial hair: Hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows, beard or moustache.
- guard hairsplural of guard hair: The top layer of fur on an animal, consisting of longer, generally coarser, nearly straight shafts of hair that protrude through the down hair layer.
- nose hairsplural of nose hair: Hair follicles inside the nostrils.
- root hairsplural of root hair: The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.
- splitting hairspresent participle and gerund of split hairs
- terminal hairsplural of terminal hair: Thick, long, dark body hair.
- axillary hairsplural of axillary hair: Androgenic hair growing in the armpit, normally beginning at the onset of, or shortly after, pubarche.
- stadia hairsplural of stadia hair: In a theodolite, etc., one of the horizontal crosshairs equidistant from the central horizontal crosshair.
- androgenic hairsplural of androgenic hair: The terminal hair that develops on the human body during and after puberty, on the face, chest, legs, armpits, pubic region, etc.
- vellus hairsplural of vellus hair: Short, fine, light-colored, and barely noticeable hair that develops on most of a person's body during childhood.
- bacon hairsplural of bacon hair: A nickname for Pal Hair, a hair accessory on the game platform Roblox.
- beard hairsplural of beard hair: The hair that makes up a beard.
- blue hairsplural of blue hair: An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch.
- camel-hairsplural of camel-hair: The soft hair of a camel.
- chest hairsplural of chest hair: The androgenic hair of the chest (anterior thorax).
- club hairsplural of club hair: A hair, having a club-shaped bulb, that is in a resting state, prior to shedding
- frog hairsplural of frog hair: The closely mown grass that surrounds a putting green, between the putting surface and any rough that might also surround the green.
- helmet hairsplural of helmet hair: An accidental messy hairdo resulting from the wearing of a helmet.
- long hairsplural of long hair: A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie.
- maiden-hairsplural of maiden-hair: A woman's pubic hair.
Compound words 36
- hairsprayAlternative form of hair spray: A usually scented hairstyling product in aerosol form that stiffens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.
- crosshairsplural of crosshair: Reticle.
- HairstonA surname.
- hairsbreadthAlternative form of hair's breadth: a very short distance or a very small amount (as is the width of a hair).
- bluehairsplural of bluehair: An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch.
- camelhairsplural of camelhair: The soft hair of a camel.
- cathairsplural of cathair: The hair of a cat.
- cochairsplural of cochair: Someone who serves as the chair of a meeting or organization together with one or more other chairs.
- hairsnakehorsehair worm (phylum Nematomorpha)
- hairsprayedsimple past and past participle of hairspray