alecithal

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9

Definition of alecithal

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Tending to segment uniformly, and having little or no yolk embedded in the protoplasm.
    “1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology It is convenient to distinguish the ova which segment uniformly by some term ; and I should propose for this the term alecithal, as implying that they are without food-yolk or […] little”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From a- + lecithal.

Anagrams of alecithal

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from alecithal

195 playable · top: ACHILLEA (13 pts)

Best play achillea 13 points

8-letter words

1 word

7-letter words

8 words

6-letter words

18 words

5-letter words

37 words

4-letter words

66 words

3-letter words

46 words

2-letter words

18 words

Find your best play with alecithal

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes alecithal, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.