Loadstone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 600 anagrams from letters in loadstone (adelnoost).
1505-15; earlier load lode + stone
One came from the finding of the loadstone, or natural magnet.
He is the loadstone in the breast of your cause; the magnet who can draw good fortune to it.
Then the heap of money was a loadstone for all their hungry eyes.
My grandmother used to tell us a story of a mountain of loadstone.
They made small boats, but were ignorant of the loadstone and the compass.
In the home she is "loadstone to all hearts, and loadstar to all eyes."
For how many centuries lay unknown all the virtues of the loadstone and the amber?
The loadstone Rock was drawing him, and he must sail on, until he struck.
She drew as potently, and to all appearances as impassively, as a loadstone.
loadstone was also recommended as a sovereign remedy for this malady.