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8 letters · 23 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
originBorrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Middle High German haufniz, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- howzit 21
- whiz 19
- zeroth 18
- zither 18
- hertz 17
- towze 17
- zowie 17
- wiz 15
- zho 15
- ritz 13
- toze 13
- trez 13