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12 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
noun the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
noun electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
originFrom interfere + -ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by English polymath Thomas Young, which he used as early as 1801 in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- inference 14
- reference 14
- frenetic 13
- infecter 13
- reinfect 13
- interfere 12
- fiercer 12
- refence 12
- renitence 11
- referent 11
- fencer 11
- fennec 11