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9 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun large watertight chamber used for construction under water
originFrom coffer + dam. The dental dam sense was introduced in English by dentist Sanford Christie Barnum at New York City in 1864 (by metaphor), but after his century it was maintained only in languages other than English (for example, German Kofferdam as a loanword from 19th-century English).
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Words from these letters
- coffer 14
- afford 13
- doffer 13
- caromed 12
- comrade 12
- mercado 12
- defoam 12
- deform 12
- farced 12
- farmed 12
- foamed 12
- forced 12