Petrels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 198 anagrams from letters in petrels (eelprst).
1670-80; earlier pitteral, of uncertain origin; perhaps altered by association with St. Peter (who attempted to walk on the water of Lake Gennesareth), alluding to the bird's habit of flying
The fusillade from the petrel was evidently interfering with the enemy's marksmanship.
Mascola turned angrily on the leather cushion and glared at the petrel's deck.
The petrel altered her course while she was speaking and sped off at a tangent.
Her decks spouting flame, the petrel raced on to meet the enemy.
Dickie walked around the petrel's bow and scrambled to the ledge.
The Leach's petrel, Murre, and some other sea birds, have but one egg.
The petrel rolled lazily in the trough of the swell as she sped down the coast.
I intend to charter the petrel, which has just discharged the cargo she brought here.
“No,” said the major, shaking his head, as he gazed out to where the petrel lay.
He is the lad I told you of who aided in saving all our lives on board the petrel.