Tessera is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 190 anagrams from letters in tessera (aeersst).
1640-50; Latin Greek (Ionic) tésseres four
tessera, tes′e-ra, n. one of the small square tiles or cut stones used in forming tessellated pavements:—pl.
And, hark thee, tell the tribune that he look well to the tessera, and have the right count from the inspectors.
When one person was received kindly by another, or a contract of friendship was entered into, the tessera was given.
The part of the tessera which each of the contracting parties received contained the name of the other.
But disappointment was in waiting,—the overseer would not give the tessera.
The very earth within those walls had a reddish cast owing to the innumerable fragments of red tile and tessera mixed with it.
Ludus sit talis, tessera, saccho (ut nostra appellatione utur), carthis variis imaginibus pictis.
The tessera, or six-sided figure, bore on its additional faces the numbers two and five.
But woe to the person who gives his tessera to a careless concierge!
"We'll exchange the tessera hospitalis on it," exclaimed Paulus.
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