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10 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain
originLearned borrowing from New Latin cellulitis. By surface analysis, cellule + -itis. Doublet of cellulite. First attested in the 1840s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- cellist 9
- cullets 9
- cullies 9
- elicits 9
- lucites 9
- luetics 9
- silicle 9
- ceilis 8
- cities 8
- cueist 8
- culets 8
- cullet 8