Chancel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 116 anagrams from letters in chancel (accehln).
1275-1325; Middle English Middle French Late Latin cancellus lattice, railing or screen before the altar of a church, Latin cancell(ī) (plural) lattice, railing, grating; see Examples for chancel
The old place was dimly lighted, but the brothers occupied the chancel only. Saxon arches separating the nave from the aisles and chancel are plain. She saw them sitting in their pew far down toward the chancel. Simultaneously from the chancel came a great cry: "Libera nos, Domine!" My chair was near the chancel rail, I now turned toward the west end of the church. Brother Paul was sitting in the chancel with a lamp on the stall by his side. Since 1996, Bolding has been director of the chancel Choir (renamed The Inspirational Voices of Abyssinian in 2008). Many were cruciform, and consisted of nave, transepts, and chancel. It was evening service, and the nave was thronged from chancel to porch. The nave, then as now, was the charge of the parish; the chancel, of the rector.