Dulcimer is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 280 anagrams from letters in dulcimer (cdeilmru).
1560-70; alteration of Middle English dowcemere Middle French doulcemer, dissimilated variant of doulcemele Old Italian dolcimelo, dolzemele Latin dulce melos sweet song. See Examples for dulcimer
It was they who gave us the dulcimer, the hautbois and the guitar; it was they who invented the serenade. You'll hear a marimba and dulcimer every so often in this crescendoing collection of stellar four-part harmonies. This was the psaltery and the dulcimer of the Assyrians and the Hebrews. There was a dulcimer in the room aunt Corinne occupied with her mother. The Hebrew psaltery is supposed to have been a variety of the dulcimer. Sarmundal, from Kattyawar, Hindustan; a kind of dulcimer in a case. The violin, guitar, and dulcimer had lain utterly neglected and unstrung. The origin of the dulcimer is remote, and must be sought in the East. It has survived in Europe as the dulcimer, or the German hackbrett. At a little distance, they look as if they were all playing the dulcimer.