7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
noun an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables
originFrom Hindustani بِرْیَانی (biryānī) / बिरयानी (biryānī), from Classical Persian بریانی (biryānī), from بریان (biryān, “roast”) (from برشتن (birištan, “to roast”)) + the suffix ـی (-ī).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0