nail-bitingly
adverb
In a manner that causes or reflects great anxiety or tension.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The New York Times.
- imperial mammoth
- imperialness
- imperial parrot
- imperial pigeon
- imperial preference
- imperial purple
- imperial roll
- imperial roof
- imperial tea
- Imperial Tokay
- imperialty
- Imperial Valley
- imperial water
- Imperial Wizard
- imperial yellow
- imperil
- imperilment
- imperious
- imperiously
- imperiousness
- imperishability
- imperishable
- imperishableness
- imperishably
- imperium