6 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
verb have or develop complicating consequences
verb grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
verb divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
originBorrowed from Middle French ramifier, from Medieval Latin ramificō (“to branch, ramify”), from Latin rāmus (“a branch”) + -ficō (causative suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0