c 3 a 1 t 1 a 1 c 3 l 1 y 4 s 1 m 3
9 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
noun an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
originFrom French cataclysme, from Latin cataclysmus, from Ancient Greek κατακλυσμός (kataklusmós, “deluge, flood”), from κατακλύζω (kataklúzō, “to dash over, flood, deluge, inundate”), from κατά (katá, “downwards, towards”) + κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash off, to wash away, to dash over”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- calmy 12
- cycas 12
- cymas 12
- yacca 12
- lactams 11
- cyma 11
- mycs 11
- lactam 10
- acyls 10
- amyls 10
- clays 10
- lyams 10