a 1 u 1 t 1 o 1 c 3 l 1 a 1 v 4 e 1
9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments
verb subject to the action of an autoclave
originBorrowed from French autoclave, formed with prefix auto- + Latin clavis (“key”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
Words from these letters
- clavate 12
- coaeval 12
- octaval 12
- vacuole 12
- alcove 11
- avocet 11
- caveat 11
- coeval 11
- octave 11
- vacate 11
- vocule 11
- ovulate 10