6 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
noun use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one
originBorrowed from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “yoking; a bond, a band”), from ζεύγνυμι (zeúgnumi, “to yoke; to join”), from ζεῦγος (zeûgos, “a yoke”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0