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10 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field
originCoined by Sir James Alfred Ewing from Ancient Greek ὑστέρησις (hustérēsis, “shortcoming”), from ὑστερέω (husteréō, “I am late, fall short”), from ὕστερος (hústeros, “later”). By surface analysis, hyster- (“higher, outer, latter, next”) + -esis.
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Words from these letters
- shysters 14
- shyster 13
- thyrses 13
- heresy 12
- shirty 12
- shyers 12
- shyest 12
- thyrse 12
- thyrsi 12
- yirths 12
- esthesis 11
- heisters 11