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8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
originFrom Portuguese melaços or Spanish melazos, from Late Latin mellacium (“must, honey-sweet thing”), from mel (“honey”) + -āceus (“-aceous”) + -ium, q.v. Some alternative forms derived or influenced by Spanish melaza and French mélasse, conjectured to derive from unattested Late Latin mellacea, from mel + -ācea.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- molasse 9
- amoles 8
- masses 8
- mosses 8
- lassoes 7
- almes 7
- amole 7
- lames 7
- leams 7
- loams 7
- lomas 7
- lomes 7