c 3 h 4 l 1 o 1 r 1 o 1 f 4 o 1 r 1 m 3
10 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic
verb anesthetize with chloroform
originBorrowed from French chloroforme, portmanteau of terchloride (tertiary chloride, trichloride) and formyle (CH, an obsolete radical of formic acid) by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, from 1834. By surface analysis, chloro- + -form.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- chromo 13
- moloch 13
- choof 13
- mooch 12
- formol 11
- moch 11
- cholo 10
- looch 10
- mhorr 10
- hoof 10
- coho 9
- coof 9