b 3 e 1 l 1 d 2 a 1 m 3 e 1
7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an ugly evil-looking old woman
noun a woman of advanced age
originInherited from late (1400–1450) Middle English beldame, beldam, from Middle English bel (“attractive, fine, good”) (from Old French bel (“beautiful”), from Latin bellus) + dame, dam (“a mother, lady”), itself ultimately from Latin domina (“a mistress, lady”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- ambled 11
- beamed 11
- bedlam 11
- beldam 11
- blamed 11
- lambed 11
- embale 10
- bemad 10
- embed 10
- beadle 9
- amble 9
- blame 9