c 3 h 4 i 1 r 1 o 1 p 3 t 1 e 1 r 1
9 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originCoined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French chiroptère, from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”), equivalent to chiro- + -pter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- phoretic 15
- chirper 14
- pitcher 14
- potiche 14
- trophic 14
- rhetoric 13
- torchier 13
- ceriph 13
- cipher 13
- orphic 13
- photic 13
- chirp 12