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Yes. The word terebra is a Scrabble US word. The word terebra is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word terebra is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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7-letter words (3 found)

REBATER,TABRERE,TEREBRA,

6-letter words (11 found)

BARRET,BARTER,BEARER,BEATER,BERATE,BERRET,BREARE,REBATE,RETEAR,TEARER,TERRAE,

5-letter words (17 found)

ARERE,ARETE,ARRET,BARER,BARRE,BEARE,BERET,BREER,BRERE,EATER,RAREE,RATER,REATE,REBAR,TABER,TARRE,TERRA,

4-letter words (24 found)

ABER,ABET,ARET,BARE,BATE,BEAR,BEAT,BEER,BEET,BERE,BETA,BETE,BRAE,BRAT,BREE,BRER,RARE,RATE,REAR,RETE,TARE,TEAR,TEER,TREE,

3-letter words (26 found)

ARB,ARE,ART,ATE,BAE,BAR,BAT,BEE,BET,BRA,BRR,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERE,ERR,ETA,RAT,REB,REE,RET,TAB,TAE,TAR,TEA,TEE,

2-letter words (13 found)

AB,AE,AR,AT,BA,BE,EA,EE,ER,ET,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 95 words from terebra according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of terebra

terebra

Etymology

Latin terebra (“a borer”).

Noun

terebra (plural terebras or terebrae)

  1. The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
  2. (historical) An Ancient Roman engine for making a breach in a wall.

Italian

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin terebra.

Noun

terebra f (plural terebre)

  1. terebra (the ovipositor of hymenopterous insects)

Etymology 2

Verb

terebra

  1. inflection of terebrare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • trabere

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈte.re.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛrɛbrä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈte.re.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛːrebrä]

Etymology 1

From ter(ō) +‎ -bra.

Alternative forms

  • terebrum
  • terebellum

Noun

terebra f (genitive terebrae); first declension

  1. an instrument for boring; borer; gimlet
Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • terebrō
Descendants
  • → Albanian: turjelë (from a diminutive)
  • → Italian: terebra
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: (from a diminutive)
    • Galician: tarabela
    • Portuguese: taramela
  • → Portuguese: térebra
  • Spanish: tarabilla (from a diminutive)

Etymology 2

Verb

terebrā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of terebrō

References

  • “terebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • terebra 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)
  • terebra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “terebra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “terebra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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