8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
noun a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual)
originOriginated 1400–50 from late Middle English turrible, from thoryble, from Latin thūribulum (“censer”), equivalent to thūs (“incense”) (root: thūr-) (from Ancient Greek θύος (thúos, “burnt offering”)) + -bulum (“instrumental suffix”).
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