7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
verb increase
verb make better or more attractive
originFrom Middle English enhauncen, anhaunsen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“enhance, raise”), from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre (“raise”), derived from Latin in + altus (“high”). The /h/ in Old French was taken from haut (“high”), where it resulted from Frankish influence.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0