14 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
noun the removal of salt (especially from sea water)
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English salinisation English desalinisation From de- + salinisation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0