Unscramble

p 3 a 1 n 1 t 1 e 1 c 3 h 4 n 1 i 1 c 3 o 1 n 1

12 letters · 21 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)

originFrom Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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