Definitions for charnel

charnel char·nel

Spelling: [chahr-nl]
IPA: /ˈtʃɑr nl/

Charnel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in charnel (acehlnr).

Definitions for charnel

noun

  1. a repository for dead bodies.

adjective

  1. of, like, or fit for a charnel; deathlike; sepulchral.

Origin of charnel

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Late Latin carnāle, noun and adj. use of neuter of carnālis 'carnal

Examples for charnel

Does not a ghastly air, a charnel breath, hover about us both?

The atmosphere of the place was cold and musty and suggestive of a charnel house.

It was a charnel yard on the hill-side, near to one of the town's six gates.

It is like a blast from a charnel house; but then, what power, what lucidity!

Not in vain from the charnel have come to me the records I produce.

The city will be a charnel house when these bodies start to decompose.

Some of these had been used as charnel houses, and had been filled with dead bodies.

Thy life has left thee, to live in the heart of a daughter of the charnel and the worm.

Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.

The love is disenhallowed; while the hand was on the rose, the thought was on the charnel.

Word Value for charnel
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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