c 3 u 1 m 3 b 3 r 1 o 1 u 1 s 1
8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
originFrom Late Middle English combrous (“causing obstruction; clumsy; obstructed; bothersome, difficult; burdensome, onerous; serious; causing trouble, troublesome; dangerous; immoral; unjust, wrongful; upset”) [and other forms], from komber, kumbre (“distress; destruction”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as cumber + -ous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- crumbs 12
- brumous 11
- combs 11
- crumb 11
- cormus 10
- mucors 10
- mucous 10
- mucros 10
- comb 10
- borms 9
- comus 9
- corms 9