Posterns is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 372 anagrams from letters in posterns (enoprsst).
1250-1300; Middle English posterne Old French, variant of posterle Late Latin posterula, diminutive of postera back door, noun use of feminine of posterus coming behind. See Examples for posterns
This postern was re-edified by William Hampton, fishmonger, mayor, in the year 1472. I considered your coachman to be a faithful man, and I told him to wait for you at the postern. He knocked, and presently the postern gaped, and a lantern was advanced. "That road leads to the postern gate at the top of the hill," she added. Cowper assumes a second postern, but there is no evidence for this, and l. 139 ff. Astonishment robbed me of breath as he threw open the postern. As each man did so he had to retire by a postern leading to the sea. I was peering through the slit in the postern, not twenty feet away. If I do but send them a message they will surely come to the postern gate. After they had passed the postern, Honey-Bee again asked where they were going.