d 2 e 1 s 1 q 10 u 1 a 1 m 3 a 1 t 1 e 1
10 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb peel off in scales
originFirst attested in 1740; borrowed from Latin dēsquāmātus, perfect passive participle of dēsquāmō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- (“off”) + squāma (“a scale”) + -ō (“verb-forming suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- squamate 19
- adequate 18
- squamae 18
- equated 17
- quested 17
- masque 17
- squama 17
- squame 17
- equates 16
- queme 16
- asquat 15
- equate 15