9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
verb bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image
verb bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
originPIE word *ǵónu From around 1620–1630 from Medieval Latin genūflectō (“to bend the knee”) equivalent to the Latin genū (“knee”) + flectō (“to bend”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0