10 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
verb cut the skin over the clitoris
verb cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys
originFrom Middle English circumcisen, from Old French circumciser (modern French circoncire) and its etymon Latin circumcīsus, the past participle of circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0