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12 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
noun the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
originBorrowed from late Middle French perspiration, from perspirer (“perspire”), from Latin perspirare (“to blow or breathe constantly”), from per (“through”) + spirare (“to breathe, blow”). Morphologically perspire + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- appointers 14
- inapposite 14
- reappoints 14
- respiration 13
- antipopes 13
- appointer 13
- pinstripe 13
- preprints 13
- reappoint 13
- strappier 13
- stroppier 13
- inspirator 12