Culprit 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 145 anagrams from letters in culprit (cilprtu).
1670-80; traditionally explained as cul (representing Latin culpābilis guilty) + prit (representing Anglo-French prest ready), marking the prosecution as ready to prove the defendant's guilt.
Plus there is another problem that the viruses pose—the problem that apparently is the culprit this year—they evolve.
She looked like a culprit whom direst vengeance had overtaken at last.
In both cases, the culprit is one perceived to be “the Other”: gays, the African president, whatever.
Personally, I support their efforts to find the culprit or the culprits.
The misunderstanding was an unfortunate affair for the culprit.
I passed through the gossiping crowd with bread and water for my culprit.
That leaves one other improbable but ultimately most likely culprit: a high-mass, low-temperature white dwarf.
There was a refreshing novelty in this case, where one of themselves was the culprit.
The other culprit, of course, is the one misanthropic jerk who reported “several hundred” names to the Facebook robot.
No culprit was ever required to bear witness against himself!
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