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9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective relating to or affected with cancer
adjective like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads
originFrom Middle English cancerous, from Latin cancerōsus, from cancer (“crab; tumor, cancer”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, cancer + -ous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- accrues 11
- accurse 11
- accuser 11
- cancers 11
- concurs 11
- nacreous 10
- accrue 10
- accuse 10
- arcsec 10
- cancer 10
- cercus 10
- concur 10