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Yes. The word levator is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

LEVATOR,

6-letter words (4 found)

LORATE,REVOLT,TRAVEL,VARLET,

5-letter words (34 found)

ALERT,ALTER,ARTEL,AVERT,LAEVO,LATER,LAVER,LOAVE,LOVAT,LOVER,OATER,ORATE,ORVAL,OVATE,OVERT,RATEL,RAVEL,REALO,ROATE,ROTAL,TALER,TAVER,TOLAR,TRAVE,TROVE,VALET,VALOR,VELAR,VOLAE,VOLAR,VOLET,VOLTA,VOLTE,VOTER,

4-letter words (63 found)

AERO,ALOE,ALTO,ARET,ARLE,ARVO,AVEL,AVER,EARL,EORL,LAER,LARE,LATE,LAVE,LEAR,LEAT,LEVA,LEVO,LORE,LOTA,LOTE,LOVE,OLEA,ORAL,ORLE,OVAL,OVEL,OVER,RALE,RATE,RATO,RAVE,REAL,ROLE,ROTA,ROTE,ROTL,ROVE,TAEL,TALE,TARE,TARO,TEAL,TEAR,TELA,TOEA,TOLA,TOLE,TORA,TORE,VALE,VARE,VEAL,VELA,VERA,VERT,VETO,VOAR,VOLA,VOLE,VOLT,VOTE,VROT,

3-letter words (50 found)

ALE,ALT,ARE,ART,ATE,AVE,AVO,EAR,EAT,ELT,ERA,ETA,EVO,LAR,LAT,LAV,LEA,LET,LEV,LOR,LOT,OAR,OAT,OLE,ORA,ORE,ORT,OVA,RAT,RAV,REO,RET,REV,ROE,ROT,TAE,TAO,TAR,TAV,TEA,TEL,TOE,TOR,VAE,VAR,VAT,VET,VOE,VOL,VOR,

2-letter words (16 found)

AE,AL,AR,AT,EA,EL,ER,ET,LA,LO,OE,OR,RE,TA,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 169 words from levator according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of levator

levator

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin levātor (“one that lifts or raises”). Doublet of lever.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɪˈveɪ.tə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /lɪˈveɪ.tɚ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

levator (plural levatores or levators)

  1. (agent noun) One who, or something which, lifts something else, as:
    2. Any of several muscles whose contraction causes the raising of a part of the body.
      Hyponyms: levator anguli oris, levator ani, levator costae, levator labii superioris, levator labii superioris alaeque nasi, levator palpebrae superioris, levator prostatae, levator scapulae, levator veli palatini
    4. A surgical instrument (tool) for lifting things, such as bone fragments or tissue flaps.

Antonyms

  • depressor

Coordinate terms

  • (type of muscle): See Category:en:Muscles
  • (type of instrument): See instruments used in general surgery

Derived terms

  • levator labiorum

Related terms

  • elevator, elevate
  • levitator, levitate
  • lever (doublet)

References

  • “levator”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “levator”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Tervola, love rat

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /leˈu̯aː.tor/, [ɫ̪eˈu̯äːt̪ɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /leˈva.tor/, [leˈväːt̪or]

Etymology 1

From levō (“to lift up, raise, elevate”) +‎ -tor (“-ator, -er”).

Noun

levātor m (genitive levātōris, feminine levātrīx); third declension

  1. lifter, thief
  2. (New Latin) one that lifts or raises
Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Descendants
  • → English: levator

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

levātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of levō

References

  • “levator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • levator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • levator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org