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12 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line
originFrom matriarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a system ruled by people of such office), modeled after patriarchate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- matriarch 16
- armchair 15
- chimaera 15
- haematic 15
- rhematic 15
- thematic 15
- charmer 14
- chimera 14
- hematic 14
- marcher 14
- matcher 14
- rematch 14