Crossword-Solution: HISS 4 letters, 347 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Hiss	v. i.	To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval.
Hiss	v. i.	To make a similar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew.
Hiss	v. t.	To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
Hiss	v. t.	To utter with a hissing sound.
Hiss	n.	A prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth, esp. as a token of disapprobation or contempt.
Hiss	n.	Any sound resembling that above described
Hiss	n.	The noise made by a serpent.
Hiss	n.	The note of a goose when irritated.
Hiss	n.	The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
HISS	anagram	SISH

We have 347 clues for the answer “HISS”

Clue	Answers
"Back off!" in felinese?	1 answer
"Boo!" accompanier	1 answer
"Boo" accompaniment	1 answer
"Boo" kin	1 answer
"Boo" partner	1 answer
Snake's warning sound	1 answer
A villain might draw one	1 answer
A way to talk	1 answer
Accused spy	1 answer
Accused spy Alger	1 answer
Acknowledge the villain's entrance	1 answer
Alarmed cat's noise	1 answer
Alber __	1 answer
Angry audience member's sound	1 answer
Angry audience reaction	1 answer
Angry cat noise	1 answer
Angry cat sound	1 answer
Angry cat's warning	1 answer
Angry goose noise	1 answer
Angry sound from a cat	1 answer
Announce the villain's arrival	1 answer
Annoying radiator sound	1 answer
Asp's greeting	1 answer
Audible reproof	1 answer
Bad response from an audience	1 answer
Ball python's sound	1 answer
Blow off steam, say	1 answer
Boiler sound	1 answer
Boo's relative	1 answer
Boo's sidekick	1 answer
Booing sound	1 answer
Cassette background noise	1 answer
Cat fight sound	1 answer
Snake's warning sound	1 answer
Cat's "Back off!"	1 answer
Cat's disapproval	1 answer
Cat's greeting	1 answer
Cat's warning sound	1 answer
Cat-meets-dog sound	1 answer
Catty warning	1 answer
Claw-raised utterance	1 answer
Coal-dousing sound	1 answer
Cobra comment	1 answer
Cobra sound	1 answer
Cobra's comment	1 answer
Cobra's greeting	1 answer
Copperhead sound	1 answer
Cottonmouth's warning	1 answer
Critical comment, of a sort	1 answer
Crony of boo.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EETRA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with HISS (5)

Thus was th’ applause they meant, Turnd to exploding hiss, triumph to shame Cast on themselves from thir own mouths.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Indoors nothing was to be heard save the droning of blue-bottle flies; out-of-doors the whetting of scythes and the hiss of tressy oat-ears rubbing together as their perpendicular stalks of amber-yellow fell heavily to each swath.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

How can I get much satisfaction out of the enthusiasm of a house that likes her atrociously bad performance at the same time that it pretends to like mine? If they like her, then they ought to hiss me off the stage.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

There was a constant and heavy background hiss, due to the inherent quality of the steel tape itself.

The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008

Round went the busily revolving machinery, kept in motion by the scissor-grinder’s foot, and wore away the hard steel against the hard stone, whence issued an intense and spiteful prolongation of a hiss as fierce as those emitted by Satan and his compeers in Pandemonium, though squeezed into smaller compass.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with HISS (3)

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn…

Jack Kerouac On the Road

... He kissed me again, farther up my neck, and I pushed him back against the wall. My mind searched for the logical thought, a rational life raft before I drowned in wanting to hiss him. I managed, "We've only met a few days ago. We don't know each other." Luke released me. "How long does it take to know someone?" I didn't know. "A month? A few months?" It sounded stupid to quantify it, especially when I didn't want to believe my own reasoning. But I couldn't just go kissing…

Maggie Stiefvater Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a picture of a discarded Coke can. "This guy's lady love is kind of a slob, don't you think?" he whispers. I cover my mouth with my hands again." A reaaaaaaaal litterbug.""Stop it," I hiss. My eyes are watering. "Ohmygod look at this one! How did he get her toenail clippings?""If you were my girl," he whispers, "I'd take creepy pictures of your trash when I knew you weren't looking."…

Stephanie Perkins Isla and the Happily Ever After

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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 507 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).