Unscramble

t 1 h 4 u 1 r 1 i 1 b 3 l 1 e 1

8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble

Meaning

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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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