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[Keith]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth  
Edition.  2000.

horripilation

SYLLABICATION:	hor·rip·i·la·tion
PRONUNCIATION:	  hô-rp-lshn, h-
NOUN:	The bristling of the body hair, as from fear or cold; goose bumps.
ETYMOLOGY:	Late Latin horripilti, horripiltin-, from Latin  
horripiltus, past participle of horripilre, to bristle with hairs :  
horrre, to tremble + pilre, to grow hair (from pilus, hair).
OTHER FORMS:	hor·ripi·late —VERB