c 3 u 1 r 1 i 1 t 1 e 1
6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originFrom Curie (“a surname”) + -ite, after Pierre Curie and/or his wife Marie, early researchers of radioactivity — the ore being radioactive due to its uranium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0