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9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
noun a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
originInherited from Middle English destroyour, destroyere; By surface analysis, destroy + -er. Designating a warship, it is ellipsis of torpedo-boat destroyer, the longer term appearing at the end of the 19th century and the shorter form early in the 20th.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
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- oystered 12
- storeyed 12
- oysterer 11
- destroy 11
- stroyed 11
- royster 10
- stroyer 10
- dryers 10
- dryest 10
- redyes 10
- resorted 9
- restored 9