houseleek
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- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 9
Definition of houseleek
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum, having a rosette of fleshy leaves.
“Equal parts of the juice of house-leek, brandy and sweet-oil in a phial, to be hung up and exposed to the sun for a month or more.”
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Etymology
From Middle English houslek, probably from Old English *hūslēac, from Proto-West Germanic *hūsalauk. Cognate with Dutch huislook, German Hauslauch, Danish husløg, Swedish huslök. By surface analysis, house + leek.
Words you can make from houseleek
110 playable · top: SHEKEL (13 pts)
Best play shekel 13 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
2 words5-letter words
17 words4-letter words
45 words- HOKE 11 pts
- HOLK 11 pts
- HULK 11 pts
- HUSK 11 pts
- KOHL 11 pts
- OKEH 11 pts
- SUKH 11 pts
- EKES 8 pts
- ELKS 8 pts
- KEEL 8 pts
- KOEL 8 pts
- KUES 8 pts
- LEEK 8 pts
- LEKE 8 pts
- LEKS 8 pts
- LEKU 8 pts
- OKES 8 pts
- SEEK 8 pts
- SKEE 8 pts
- SKOL 8 pts
- SOKE 8 pts
- SOUK 8 pts
- SULK 8 pts
- UKES 8 pts
- HEEL 7 pts
- HELO 7 pts
- HOES 7 pts
- HOLE 7 pts
- HOLS 7 pts
- HOSE 7 pts
- HUES 7 pts
- LUSH 7 pts
- SHOE 7 pts
- SHUL 7 pts
- EELS 4 pts
- ELSE 4 pts
- LEES 4 pts
- LOSE 4 pts
- LUES 4 pts
- OLES 4 pts
- SEEL 4 pts
- SLOE 4 pts
- SLUE 4 pts
- SOLE 4 pts
- SOUL 4 pts
3-letter words
30 words2-letter words
14 wordsHooks
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