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9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun pitcher plants
originBorrowed from Latin nēpenthes (“a drug bringing relief from grief”), from Ancient Greek νηπενθές (nēpenthés), neuter of νηπενθής (nēpenthḗs, “sorrow-banishing”), from νη- (nē-, “not”) + πένθος (pénthos, “grief”) (from πάσχειν (páskhein), present active infinitive of πάσχω (páskhō, “to be ill or injured in a certain way; to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷendʰ- (“to endure, to suffer”)).…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- nepenthe 13
- sphene 11
- pentenes 10
- ethenes 10
- phene 10
- sheep 10
- thesp 10
- pentene 9
- steepen 9
- ethene 9
- seethe 9
- heps 9