Unscramble

c 3 r 1 u 1 c 3 i 1 b 3 l 1 e 1

8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions

originFrom Latin crucibulum (“night-lamp, metallurgic melting-pot”), apparently a derivative of crux (“cross”), perhaps by analogy to thūribulum (“censer”) and suffix -bulum, or from crucio (“to torment”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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