Monkeries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 453 anagrams from letters in monkeries (eeikmnors).
First recorded in 1530-40; monk + -ery
As Mr Maitland says of the plan—it would be after all but "a playing at monkery."
If ever monk had got to heaven by monkery, I had been that monk.
Down this slope it was hurled headlong by the establishment of monkery.
One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.
But who can reckon on the honesty of a woman where bribery and monkery reign!
Thus in the early days the sect defied their Prophet's condemnation of monkery by building an abode for members of the order.
"And still you haven't answered my question about your monkery," Guy persisted.
Fructuosus, who died about 665, displayed when a mere child a genius for monkery.
If the salt of the earth––but not to the nunnery nor to the monkery, we go.
Have you not seen enough of monkery this afternoon, that you must try still to make that poor girl even such a one as yourselves?
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