Cowrie 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 78 anagrams from letters in cowrie (ceiorw).
First recorded in 1655-65, cowrie is from the Hindi word kaurī
He wore a broad belt decorated with cowrie shells and beads.
Islands are denoted on this wonderful piece of native work by cowrie shells fastened to the framework.
I know almost every island where trade can be got, and the price to a cowrie that should be paid.
The folly of the gambling savage, who stakes his liberty against a handful of cowrie shells is nothing to it.
There was no need to worry about food—no need to spend a cowrie at the crowded stalls.
They were so laden with savage riches as to be almost concealed beneath the strings of cowrie shells and bands of beads.
It was covered with red velvet and decorated with cowrie shells.
Also, she had ten coils of dewarra (cowrie shells threaded on the midribs of the coco-nut leaf, and used as the native currency).
Their leathern collars are covered with cowrie shells sewn on them in various fantastic patterns.
The cowrie ornaments were taken off when a man was mourning the death of a relation.