Allegory is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 254 anagrams from letters in allegory (aegllory).
1350-1400; Middle English allegorie Latin allēgoria Greek allēgoría, derivative of allēgoreîn to speak so as to imply something other. See allo-, Examples for allegory
The allegory has a political as well as a philosophical meaning. They are, after all, carefully selected “types,” and to isolate them runs the risk of seeing the book as an allegory. The allegory is the life of its author cast in an imaginative form. The painting is at the Metropolitan Museum, which considers it an allegory of the sense of sight. They've got no use for Beauty, allegory, all that high-brow racket. Khalid proceeds with his allegory of the Muleteer and the Pack-Mule. Seizing on this scene, critics called the novel “an allegory of our violent times.” The composite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul. Roosevelt, it seems, had little taste for allegory, and misunderstood which “wild things” London was actually describing. A “Crime of the Century” that takes on mythic dimensions as an allegory of a city in decline.