l 1 e 1 m 3 n 1 i 1 s 1 c 3 u 1 s 1
9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
originBorrowed from Latin lēmniscus (“pendent ribbon”), from Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnĭ́skos), from Λῆμνος (Lêmnos, “a Greek island Lemnos”) + -ίσκος (-ískos, “noun-forming diminutive suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- meniscus 12
- mescluns 12
- cesiums 11
- mesclun 11
- miscues 11
- muscles 11
- cesium 10
- climes 10
- cnemis 10
- culmen 10
- cumins 10
- minces 10