Calices is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 177 anagrams from letters in calices (acceils).
From Latin; See origin at chalice
When darkness comes on they contract, and the calices of the flowers close.
Other naturalists, or rather other dreamers, made these insects spring from the calices of sweet-scented flowers.
Towards evening every bird became silent, the flowers closed their calices, the leaves of the trees hung limply down.
A, Portion of the surface of a colony of Heliopora coerulea magnified, showing two calices and the surrounding coenenchymal tubes.
The natives never remove the calices of the rose-flowers, but place the whole into the still as it comes from the garden.