Dotterels is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 385 anagrams from letters in dotterels (deelorstt).
First recorded in 1400-50, dotterel is from the late Middle English word dotrelle. See dote, -rel
A dotterel goes plaintively piping over the stones, and the "cheep, cheep," of the awakening ling-birds rises from every brae.
In short, whatever the fowler does, the dotterel does the same.
dotterel (Eudromias morinellus), a species of plover which breeds in the north of Europe, and returns to the south for the winter.
One day I managed to get six brace of ptarmigan and some dotterel—and very pretty birds they were.
The dotterel (Pluvialis morinellus) is a little larger than a Blackbird.
Neither do the dotterel and the ring-ouzel, the latter in song so mellow, both moving on speedily into the hilly districts.
Last night we had dotterel and sandpipers for dinner, this morning greenshanks, which are very good birds indeed.
The Johnnie Faws moved restlessly up and down the village; but most of them gathered at the dotterel, though they drank nothing.
Such a character as dotterel is hardly made to allude to the pocula coronata of the Romans.
The dotterel is one of the most interesting of British birds.