Travail is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 165 anagrams from letters in travail (aailrtv).
1200-50; (v.) Middle English travaillen Old French travaillier to torment Vulgar Latin *trepaliāre to torture, derivative of Late Latin trepālium torture chamber, literally, instrument of tor
But it could be that travail knew of the value of Sutter's shell collection.
She did not seem to be in pain, and yet in travail of some sort.
"I'll do nothing of the sort," said travail, starting to back away.
His hands shook, his stalwart frame trembled as with the agony of travail.
"I was looking for my tobacco pouch," travail replied easily.
The skin of his head seemed to move in this travail of vain and tormenting suppositions.
And pray that we may enter into that travail of soul with Him.
Pray that He may see of the travail of His soul, and be satisfied with each of them.
As he drove he mused over what travail would say when he saw these shells.
His mind had been in travail; his soul had known the pangs of labor.