Martlets is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 399 anagrams from letters in martlets (aelmrstt).
1530-40; Middle French martelet, variant of martinet; see martin, -et
martlet and I both feel that we must have the north-west tower.
Most heraldry books state also that the martlet has no beak.
The Swallow, as distinct from the martlet, is sometimes met with.
A near relative of this bird is the Martin, or, as it is called in the language of heraldry, the martlet (Hirundo urbica).
The martlet is practically always represented in profile, at rest, and with its wings closed.
Commoner than the eagle as a charge is the martlet, a humbler bird which is never found as the sole charge of a shield.
Gates of wrought iron, with perhaps a martlet from the Byrd coat of arms above them, swung between tall pillars in the wall.
The martlet is the appropriate “difference” or mark of cadency for the fourth son.
Some writers confound it with the martlet, stating that the alerion is the same bird with its wings displayed or extended.
I cannot get at the root of this word, 'martlet,' which is the really classical and authoritative English one.