Cryonics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 181 anagrams from letters in cryonics (ccinorsy).
1965-70, Americanism; cryo- + -nics, on the model of bionics, electronics, etc.
Ira Glass came to me over a year ago with a project first reported on This American Life about the first cryonics freezing.