Copperas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 386 anagrams from letters in copperas (aceopprs).
1400-50; late Middle English coperas, variant of Middle English coperose Medieval Latin (aqua) cuprōsa copperish (water). See copper1, Examples for copperas
Miss copperas had said, when I hinted so to her on first trying it, that it wanted “age.” Put the wool into this for 1/2 hour; then return it into the alum and copperas for 10 to 15 minutes. The amount of copperas should be from one and a half to twice that of the indigo. Alum and copperas have been known in the Highlands long ages. It was black, but the copperas would eat the paper after a while. Captain copperas had forgotten to settle for it, he said—if he had gone away. Then boil them, and put in a piece of copperas, as large as a hen's egg. Captain copperas owes me a small account, and I want it settled. I followed him to Lydia's cabin, where he compelled her to drink this solution of copperas. We're goin' up to copperas Creek and there ain't a thing in that.
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