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9 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective high in price or charging high prices
originFrom Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- expense 16
- vixens 16
- vexes 15
- vixen 15
- pixes 14
- exines 13
- vex 13
- pensive 12
- vespine 12
- exies 12
- exine 12
- nixes 12