Orchil is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 88 anagrams from letters in orchil (chilor).
Borrowed into English from Old French around 1475-85
"He seems to be inside this deal," ventured orchil with his suave smile.
What's the matter with orchil, and that hatchet-faced beagle-pup, Mottly?
It is dyed in orchil first, and then made bluer, and somewhat more secure, by being soused in a well-soaped alkaline mixture.
Roccella, rok-sel′a, n. a genus of parmeliaceous lichens, yielding dyers' archil or orchil.
"Captain Selwyn is perfectly right," observed orchil coolly.
In due time Neergard, who still spent his penny on a morning paper, read about the orchil ball.
orchil is applied to wool by the simple process of boiling it in a neutral or slightly acid solution of the colouring matter.
Fane spoke up languidly: "It rather looks as though we were the down-and-out delegation at present; doesn't it, orchil?"
Cochineal is turned by the potassa to a violet-red, orchil to a violet-blue, and alkanet to a decided blue.
Turmeric, orchil, catechu, and indigo carmine are all extremely fugitive.