Portcullis is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 621 anagrams from letters in portcullis (cilloprstu).
1300-50; Middle English portecolys Middle French porte coleice, equivalent to porte port4 + coleice, feminine of coleis flowing, sliding Vulgar Latin *cōlā
Bid the varlets lower the draw-bridge and raise the portcullis.
Edouard felt as it were a portcullis of ice come down between her and him.
They were placed in two apartments, divided by a portcullis.
When Corkran got to his portcullis, he thought he'd reached the reward of his labours.
"We are not wont to be summoned after once the portcullis is up," said he.
The sun was sinking in shrouds of gray when we passed the portcullis at Roche-Mauprat.
This suggests colander, which, like portcullis, belongs to Lat.
Unless the drawbridge can be lowered and portcullis raised—none!
Turning, they wished to flee into the castle and pull down the portcullis.
The portcullis had dropped; the days of his service in England were over.
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