p 3 u 1 e 1 r 1 p 3 e 1 r 1 a 1
8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter
originBorrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- paperer 11
- prepare 11
- repaper 11
- pauper 10
- rappee 10
- rapper 10
- paper 9
- pupae 9
- rappe 9
- upper 9
- parure 8
- reaper 8