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14 letters · 23 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originLearned borrowing from Latin cruci- (a stem of crux (“cross”, noun); possibly from Proto-Indo-European *krewk- (“back, spine; heap; hill (?)”) or *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”)) + English verbalist (“one who possesses verbal or oratorical skill”), modelled after crossword (calqued in Latin as cruci- + verbum (“word”, noun)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- circulative 18
- lubricative 18
- verbalistic 18
- subcritical 17
- siccative 16
- circularise 15
- clavierist 15
- revictuals 15
- versicular 15
- vestibular 15
- victualers 15
- celibatic 15