p 3 l 1 i 1 o 1 c 3 e 1 n 1 e 1
8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
originFrom Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, pleio- + -cene.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- pleonic 11
- pencel 10
- pencil 10
- piecen 10
- police 10
- cineole 9
- clepe 9
- copen 9
- pence 9
- piece 9
- ponce 9