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7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
noun a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
verb cover with shellac
originFrom shell + lac, calque of French laque en écailles (literally “lac in scales/shells”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- chelas 11
- laches 11
- aches 10
- chals 10
- chase 10
- chela 10
- clash 10
- leach 10
- ache 9
- cash 9
- chal 9
- chas 9