Cowry is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 40 anagrams from letters in cowry (corwy).
They asked if I could send them some cowry shells, which they use as decorations for the dance.
He then ties a lock of hair, a cowry shell, a piece of turmeric, and an article of gold on the right wrist of the patient.
It was probably by the Arabs that the cowry was introduced to the east coast of Africa.
The cowry shell is, with the same object, tied round the neck or pasterns of a valued horse, or on a cow or buffalo.
Two things are essential to the astrologer, namely, a bag of cowry shells (Cypræa moneta), and an almanac.
Her prize was a long water gourd strapped with leather and decorated with cowry shells.
Some cowry (Cypræa arabica) shells are then thrown into the tank, and the vessel is filled with water, and taken to the house.
The cowry circulation of the Indian coasts is probably a case in point.
The transference in meaning from "cowry" to "bead" is illustrated in Kaffir in-tsimbi "beads."
The cowry has never had a lip that was not thickened, nor an exterior that was not porcellanous.