8 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
originFrom Ancient Greek σεληνίτης (selēnítēs), from σελήνη (selḗnē, “moon”) + -ίτης (-ítēs, “belonging to”). By surface analysis, Selen(e) (“the Moon”) + -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0