8 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
verb bring into existence
verb give or supply
verb produce (energy)
originFrom Latin generō (“beget, procreate, produce”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from genus (“a kind, race, family”, gener- in compounds) + -ō; see genus. Compare Italian generare, French générer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, gender (“engender, breed, copulate”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0