8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
noun aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh
originBorrowed from Latin bdellium, from Ancient Greek βδέλλιον (bdéllion), itself perhaps from Hebrew בְּדֹלַח (bdólakh), cognate with Akkadian 𒁉𒁺𒌨𒄷 (bidurḫu) or from Sanskrit भिदुर (bhidura, “something brittle, fragile, easily split or broken”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0