hatchment
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- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 9
Definition of hatchment
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall
“No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.”
“Having passed through Gaunt Square into Great Gaunt Street, the carriage at length stopped at a tall gloomy house between two other tall gloomy houses, each with a hatchment over the middle drawing-room window; as is the custom of houses in Great Gaunt Street, in which gloomy locality death seems to reign perpetual.”
“Immediately the Railway Executive received the news, the former London & North Eastern Railway special rolling stock was prepared, including the saloon always used as a hearse coach, which was painted black and decorated each side with hatchments of the Royal Arms.”
“The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]”
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Etymology
From Middle French hachement, a modification of Old French acesmement (“adornment”) (related to Italian accismare); not, as is often claimed, an alteration of achievement.
Words you can make from hatchment
151 playable · top: HATCHET (15 pts)
Best play hatchet 15 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
5 words5-letter words
24 words- CHETH 13 pts
- HATCH 13 pts
- MACHE 12 pts
- MATCH 12 pts
- HEATH 11 pts
- CHANT 10 pts
- CHEAT 10 pts
- HANCE 10 pts
- NATCH 10 pts
- TACHE 10 pts
- TEACH 10 pts
- TENCH 10 pts
- THECA 10 pts
- NEATH 8 pts
- TENTH 8 pts
- THANE 8 pts
- THETA 8 pts
- AMENT 7 pts
- ENACT 7 pts
- MATTE 7 pts
- MEANT 7 pts
- MENTA 7 pts
- TACET 7 pts
- TECTA 7 pts
4-letter words
60 words- CHAM 11 pts
- CHEM 11 pts
- MACH 11 pts
- MECH 11 pts
- HATH 10 pts
- HETH 10 pts
- ACHE 9 pts
- AHEM 9 pts
- CATH 9 pts
- CHAT 9 pts
- EACH 9 pts
- ECHT 9 pts
- ETCH 9 pts
- HAEM 9 pts
- HAME 9 pts
- MATH 9 pts
- METH 9 pts
- TACH 9 pts
- TECH 9 pts
- THEM 9 pts
- ACME 8 pts
- CAME 8 pts
- MACE 8 pts
- EATH 7 pts
- HAEN 7 pts
- HAET 7 pts
- HANT 7 pts
- HATE 7 pts
- HEAT 7 pts
- HENT 7 pts
- TETH 7 pts
- THAE 7 pts
- THAN 7 pts
- THAT 7 pts
- THEN 7 pts
- ACNE 6 pts
- AMEN 6 pts
- CANE 6 pts
- CANT 6 pts
- CATE 6 pts
- CENT 6 pts
- MANE 6 pts
- MATE 6 pts
- MATT 6 pts
- MEAN 6 pts
- MEAT 6 pts
- META 6 pts
- NAME 6 pts
- NEMA 6 pts
- TACE 6 pts
- TACT 6 pts
- TAME 6 pts
- TEAM 6 pts
- ANTE 4 pts
- ETNA 4 pts
- NEAT 4 pts
- NETT 4 pts
- TATE 4 pts
- TEAT 4 pts
- TENT 4 pts
3-letter words
41 words- HAH 9 pts
- HEH 9 pts
- HAM 8 pts
- HEM 8 pts
- MEH 8 pts
- CAM 7 pts
- MAC 7 pts
- ETH 6 pts
- HAE 6 pts
- HAT 6 pts
- HEN 6 pts
- HET 6 pts
- NAH 6 pts
- NTH 6 pts
- THE 6 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- ACT 5 pts
- CAN 5 pts
- CAT 5 pts
- MAE 5 pts
- MAN 5 pts
- MAT 5 pts
- MEN 5 pts
- MET 5 pts
- NAM 5 pts
- TAM 5 pts
- TEC 5 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- ANT 3 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- ATT 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- NET 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TAN 3 pts
- TAT 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TEN 3 pts
- TET 3 pts
2-letter words
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