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9 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive
originFrom Middle English saltpetre, alteration of Old French salpetre, from Medieval Latin sāl petrae (“salt of the rock”), named so being found as an incrustation. Alteration of the first element is from folk-etymological association with salt (which is, nevertheless, cognate to Latin sāl).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
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- palettes 10
- partlets 10
- peartest 10
- petrales 10
- platters 10
- pleaters 10
- prattles 10
- prelates 10
- pretaste 10
- replates 10
- splatter 10
- sprattle 10