Rearguard is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 167 anagrams from letters in rearguard (aadegrrru).
First recorded in 1895-1900; attributive use of rear guard
Some of them who had been on duty in the rearguard had had no breakfast (it so happened).
"He will stay with the rearguard," said the Emir to his lieutenant.
A rearguard action by a determined minority may hold back the tide of history for a while.
Then with sticks and staves they fell upon the rearguard and cudgelled them.
But the whole operation proved no more than a rearguard action.
The rearguard went on; the guns arrived also at the ditch and the overtaxed bridge.
We are in,' said the man, as he drove into the rearguard and the camel knelt.
There seemed to be no disposition to push this rearguard when we got up to Fairfield.
Three feet above was the flooring, and all the rearguard passing over.
These would be setbacks, but they would also be rearguard actions that wouldn't hold for long.