Orchils is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 168 anagrams from letters in orchils (chilors).
Borrowed into English from Old French around 1475-85
Turmeric, orchil, catechu, and indigo carmine are all extremely fugitive.
Roccella, rok-sel′a, n. a genus of parmeliaceous lichens, yielding dyers' archil or orchil.
In due time Neergard, who still spent his penny on a morning paper, read about the orchil ball.
Fane spoke up languidly: "It rather looks as though we were the down-and-out delegation at present; doesn't it, orchil?"
It is dyed in orchil first, and then made bluer, and somewhat more secure, by being soused in a well-soaped alkaline mixture.
Cochineal is turned by the potassa to a violet-red, orchil to a violet-blue, and alkanet to a decided blue.
What's the matter with orchil, and that hatchet-faced beagle-pup, Mottly?
"He seems to be inside this deal," ventured orchil with his suave smile.
orchil is applied to wool by the simple process of boiling it in a neutral or slightly acid solution of the colouring matter.
"Captain Selwyn is perfectly right," observed orchil coolly.