8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
adjective being without a bone or bones
originFrom Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0