Chamades is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 287 anagrams from letters in chamades (aacdehms).
1675-85; French Portuguese chamada, equivalent to cham(ar) to sound (Latin clamāre to shout; see claim) + -ada -ade1
Upon which Harsch, next morning, has to beat the chamade, and surrender Prisoner of War.
A white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the chamade.
Stralsund instantly beat the chamade, as we heard; and all was surrender and subjection in those regions.
He asked me, "Don't you know the rules of war, then; that you fire after chamade is beaten?"
I answered in my heat, "I knew of no chamade; what poltroonery or what treachery had been going on, I knew not!"