8 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
noun an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black
originFrom Spanish cuarterón (“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0