Archil is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 102 anagrams from letters in archil (achilr).
The manufacture of archil was for centuries carried on in wooden troughs.
The archil of commerce is met with as a liquid paste, or as a thin liquid dye or stain of more or less intensity.
Extremely beautiful but fugitive colours are also obtained from Brazil wood, safflower, archil, and some other substances.
Instead of archil, any red or orange azo dyestuff may be used, preferably bordeaux.
Instead of extract of archil, fast red or bordeaux may be employed.
A rose colour is given by tincture of archil; and yellow, by tincture of turmeric or annotta.
The colour imparted to the wool by fuchsine is retained after washing, and may be distinguished from archil by ammonia.
Roccella, rok-sel′a, n. a genus of parmeliaceous lichens, yielding dyers' archil or orchil.
A less fast color is obtained with archil, indigo carmine and picric acid.
archil, r′kil, n. a colouring substance obtained from various species of lichens.