Khamsin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 195 anagrams from letters in khamsin (ahikmns).
First recorded in 1675-85, khamsin is from the Arabic word khamsīn literally, fifty
But if buildings are shut up early in the morning and opened at night, even the khamsin may be made tolerable.
The khamsin blows for a certain number of days in April, May, and the first half of June.
During the night a khamsin wind began to blow, though lightly as was to be expected at this season of the year.
It was another very hot day, with a khamsin blowing, and the hard, shelterless hill-sides were a poor place to spend it on.
The heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the "khamsin" or duststorms.
O effendi, shall the camel-driver laugh when the camels are lost in the khamsin and the water-bottle is empty?
khamsin (fifty), a hot sand wind which blows in Egypt from the desert for fifty days, chiefly before and after the month of May.
khamsin, kam′sin, n. a hot south-west wind in Egypt, blowing for about fifty days from about the middle of March.
Their delay had been caused in part by the khamsin wind, and in part by their sluggish movements.
Alexandria on our return was dimmed in the heat and choking in the sand clouds of a khamsin.