9 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
noun robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
origin1520s from bumble + bee, replacing Middle English humbul-be. Merged with Middle English bombeln (“to boom, buzz”), in the late 14th century. The name of the drink is a semantic loan from Ukrainian джміль (džmilʹ).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0