Kermes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 74 anagrams from letters in kermes (eekmrs).
1590-1600; French kermès Arabic qirmiz Persian; replacing earlier chermez Italian chermes Arabic as above; see crimson
In the Middle Ages the dye from the kermes was still called “vermiculata,” of which the word vermilion is a literal translation.
The mineral red now called vermilion must have borrowed its name from the insect dye which the Greeks and Romans called “kermes.”
The composition writhes and twists about like the kermes of Rubens.
The kermes, however, were not indigenous to Arabia, as the Arabs appear to have no name for them.
With the real nature of kermes the ancients were not acquainted.
The kermes falls down in a brown-red powder, as the liquor cools.
Nitre fixed by charcoal, and resolved into a liquor, is the only alkali employed in preparing the kermes.
The Polish kermes (Coccus polonicus) was formerly used very much in Europe.
Wash all these sediments with warm water, till they become insipid; then dry them, and you have the kermes Mineral.
In the department of the Bouches-du-Rhone, one half of the kermes crop is dried.