Palmettes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 460 anagrams from letters in palmettes (aeelmpstt).
From French, dating back to 1835-45; See origin at palm2, -ette
It has an incised maeander, as in No. 29, 7, and a palmette ornament painted in red.
Instead of the palmette is sometimes a crescent, no doubt in allusion to the moon.
The standard form of handle consists of a ring for the forefinger and above it a kind of palmette for the thumb.
The handle curves gracefully to the back of the jawbones, where it is attached to a palmette.
The stel is surmounted by a rounded top as if for a palmette, which may have been painted.
In some cases the rosette and the palmette are introduced in a single picture .
Their leading ornamental types may be traced to Asiatic prototypes—the palmette and the rosette, for instance.
A considerable quantity of foreign pears had been produced on the palmette verrier system.
An ever present feature, also, is the palmette acroterium, treated in conventional ceramic style.
A wide middle border between two narrow stripes holds the rosette and palmette, and also the lancet leaf, in tiny form.