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Yes. The word umbilicus is a Scrabble US word. The word umbilicus is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word umbilicus is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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9-letter words (1 found)

UMBILICUS,

8-letter words (1 found)

BULIMICS,

7-letter words (2 found)

BULIMIC,BULIMUS,

6-letter words (7 found)

CILIUM,CLIMBS,CUBISM,CUMULI,LIMBIC,LIMBUS,LUMBUS,

5-letter words (14 found)

CLIMB,CLUBS,CULMS,CUSUM,ILIUM,LIMBI,LIMBS,LUMBI,MUCUS,MUILS,MUSIC,SCLIM,SIMUL,SULCI,

4-letter words (23 found)

BUMS,CLUB,CUBS,CULM,CUMS,IBIS,LIBS,LIMB,LUMS,MIBS,MICS,MILS,MUIL,SCUL,SCUM,SIMI,SLIM,SLUB,SLUM,SULU,SUMI,ULUS,UMUS,

3-letter words (24 found)

BIS,BUM,BUS,CIS,CUB,CUM,ISM,LIB,LIS,LUM,MIB,MIC,MIL,MIS,MUS,SIB,SIC,SIM,SUB,SUI,SUM,ULU,UMS,UMU,

2-letter words (8 found)

BI,IS,LI,MI,MU,SI,UM,US,

You can make 80 words from umbilicus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of umbilicus

umbilicus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin umbilīcus (“navel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌʌmˈbɪlɪkəs/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ʌmbɪˈlʌɪkəs/

Noun

umbilicus (plural umbilici or umbilicuses)

  1. (anatomy) navel
  2. (botany) hilum
  3. (zoology) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
  4. (zoology) Either of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
  5. (space science) A tube connecting an astronaut or spacecraft to the mothership, through which supplies and samples can be transferred.
    • 1994, Michael J. Nelson (head writer), "Girls Town", episode 601, Mystery Science Theater 3000
      How about a 270 mile tether to an orbiting satellite? Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you? Frank! Prepare to receive the umbilicus!
  6. (geometry, obsolete) One of the foci of an ellipse or other curve.
  7. (geometry) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other.
  8. (historical) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.

Synonyms

  • (navel): omphalos
  • (navel): omphalus

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (“navel”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /um.biˈliː.kus/, [ʊmbɪˈlʲiːkʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /um.biˈli.kus/, [umbiˈliːkus]

Noun

umbilīcus m (genitive umbilīcī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) a navel
  2. the middle or center
  3. the ornamented end of a scroll

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “umbilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “umbilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • umbilicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “umbilicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “umbilicus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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