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11 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der. Proto-Italic *akus New Latin acus Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der. Proto-Italic *pungō New Latin pungō New Latin pūnctus Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? New Latin -tūra New Latin pūnctūra New Latin acūpūnctūralbor. English acupuncture Learned borrowing from New Latin acūpūnctūra, from acus + pūnctūra. First attested in 1684. By…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- peccant 13
- puncture 12
- accept 12
- capture 11
- accent 10
- accrue 10
- apercu 10
- cancer 10
- carpet 10
- paunce 10
- prance 10
- preact 10