Dentils is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 249 anagrams from letters in dentils (deilnst).
1655-65; French dentille (obsolete), feminine diminutive of dent tooth
As a general rule the projection of the dentil is equal to its width, and the intervals between to half the width.
The ciborium has cipollino columns, antique caps, pointed arches, and Venetian dentil enrichments with marble inlays.
dentil band, in Classic architecture, a series of small blocks resembling square-shaped teeth.
The Venetian dentil was also introduced as a label round arches and as a string course.
In the later temples of Ionia, as in the temple of Priene, the larger scale of the dentil is still retained.
The dentil was the chief decorative feature employed in the bed-mould by the Romans and the Italian Revivalists.
It has slightly pointed arches, with Venetian dentil borderings, and mosaics in the spandrils.
The first and third courses are stretchers and the middle course is composed of headers laid to form a dentil course.
These and the columns support a beautifully modelled entablature, enriched only with a dentil course.
The only carved molding is the Grecian fret of the dentil course in the pedimental cornice.