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Yes. The word maxilla is a Scrabble US word. The word maxilla is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

MAXILLA,

6-letter words (1 found)

AXILLA,

5-letter words (6 found)

AXIAL,LAMIA,LIMAX,LLAMA,MAILL,MALAX,

4-letter words (13 found)

ALMA,AMIA,AMLA,AXAL,AXIL,LAMA,LIMA,MAIL,MALA,MALI,MALL,MAXI,MILL,

3-letter words (16 found)

AAL,AIA,AIL,AIM,ALA,ALL,AMA,AMI,ILL,LAM,LAX,MAA,MAL,MAX,MIL,MIX,

2-letter words (10 found)

AA,AI,AL,AM,AX,LA,LI,MA,MI,XI,

You can make 47 words from maxilla according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of maxilla

maxilla

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”), diminutive of māla (“the cheekbone, jaw”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mækˈsɪl.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

maxilla (plural maxillae or (obsolete) maxillæ or maxillas)

  1. (anatomy, zootomy) Synonym of jaw.
    Synonym: jawbone
    1. An upper jaw especially of humans and other mammals in which the bony elements are closely fused.
      Synonym: maxillary bone
      Coordinate term: mandible
    2. (anatomy) Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth.
  2. (zootomy) One of the first or second pair of mouthparts posterior to the mandibles in many arthropods that are used for tasting and manipulating food.
    Synonym: (in arachnids) endite

Derived terms

Translations

References

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

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of māla (“the cheekbone, jaw”), from its reconstructed Proto-Italic form *smakslā and the diminutive suffix *-elos via the following sequence of regular sound changes: *-kslelā > *-ksl̥lā > *-ksillā. Compare the formation of the following diminutives: āla–āxilla, ōlla–auxilla, paulus–pauxillus, pālus–pāxillus, vēlum–vēxillum. An alternative etymology of māla, supported by Thurneysen and Leumann, reconstructs its original form as *mandslā, from the root of mandō (“to chew”); if this is correct, the -x- in the diminutive must have instead been introduced by analogy to āxilla. Synchronically, māxilla can be viewed as ending in the Latin diminutive suffix -illus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /maːkˈsil.la/, [mäːkˈs̠ɪlːʲä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /makˈsil.la/, [mäkˈsilːä]

Noun

māxilla f (genitive māxillae); first declension

  1. Diminutive of māla:
    1. (anatomy) the jaw, jawbone, bone of the upper jaw
    2. (anatomy) the lower part of the face, the jaws

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • māxillāris (adjective)
  • māxillō (verb)

Descendants

References

Further reading

  • “maxilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “maxilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • maxilla 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)
  • maxilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

maxilla f (plural maxillas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of maxila

Source: wiktionary.org