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14 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adverb in a dogged and pertinacious manner
originFrom pertinacious + -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (“very”) + tenāx (“tenacious”), from teneō (“to hold”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- counterplays 19
- perniciously 19
- counterplay 18
- inculpatory 18
- peculiarity 18
- pecuniarily 18
- specularity 18
- polyneuritis 17
- captiously 17
- counterspy 17
- narcolepsy 17
- pelycosaur 17