t 1 e 1 n 1 e 1 s 1 m 3 u 1 s 1
8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome
originBorrowing from Medieval Latin tēnesmus, from Ancient Greek τεινεσμός (teinesmós, “vain endeavor to evacuate”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch, to pull tight”) + -εσμός (-esmós, nominal suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
Words from these letters
- mustees 9
- menses 8
- mesnes 8
- mustee 8
- neumes 8
- semens 8
- sensum 8
- tmeses 8
- unmeet 8
- emeus 7
- meets 7
- menes 7