Bascule is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 234 anagrams from letters in bascule (abcelsu).
1670-80; French: name for a number of seesawlike mechanical devices, Middle French bacule, noun derivative of baculer to strike on the buttocks (probably orig., to land on one's buttocks), eq
bascule, bas′kūl, n. an apparatus of the lever kind, in which one end is raised while the other is depressed.
The cost has been set down at 65,000, or about one-thirtieth that of a suspension bridge, and one-third that of a bascule bridge.
The assistants seized the condemned man, and pushed him on to the bascule.
We shall see the poor devil get out of the carriage, and being fastened on to the bascule, and pulled into the lunette.