Unscramble

m 3 e 1 n 1 s 1 t 1 r 1 u 1 a 1 t 1 i 1 o 1 n 1

12 letters · 14 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; --Hippocrates; --Aristotle

originFrom menstruum + -ation, modelled after Late Latin menstruatio. The word is a cognate with French menstruation, Spanish menstruación, which displaced Old English mōnaþblōd (literally “monthblood”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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