Definitions for charnels

charnels char·nel

Spelling: [chahr-nl]
IPA: /ˈtʃɑr nl/

Charnels 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 384 anagrams from letters in charnels (acehlnrs).

Definitions for charnels

noun

  1. a repository for dead bodies.

adjective

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

Origin of charnels

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

Examples for charnels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for charnels
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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