10 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
noun the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child
originFrom Middle English childbyrth [and other forms], perhaps a partial calque of Old Norse barnburðr (“childbearing, childbirth”, literally “bairn birth”); equivalent to child + birth. Compare Swedish barnsbörd (“childbirth”), Icelandic barnsburður (“childbirth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0