maceral
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of maceral
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A component of coal or oil shale.
“Inertinite, vitrinite and liptinite are macerals.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin mācerō (“macerate”) + -al, after mineral. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1935.
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93 playable · top: CAMERAL (11 pts)
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- CALM 8 pts
- CAME 8 pts
- CLAM 8 pts
- CRAM 8 pts
- MACE 8 pts
- MARC 8 pts
- MERC 8 pts
- ACRE 6 pts
- ALEC 6 pts
- ALMA 6 pts
- ALME 6 pts
- CARE 6 pts
- CARL 6 pts
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- LAME 6 pts
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- MARA 6 pts
- MARE 6 pts
- MARL 6 pts
- MEAL 6 pts
- MERL 6 pts
- RACE 6 pts
- REAM 6 pts
- ALAE 4 pts
- ALAR 4 pts
- AREA 4 pts
- EARL 4 pts
- LEAR 4 pts
- RALE 4 pts
- REAL 4 pts
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