Ancestress is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 611 anagrams from letters in ancestress (aceenrssst).
First recorded in 1570-80; ancest(o)r + -ess
This "witch," by the way, was an ancestress of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd.
His ancestress Asenath, the wife of Joseph, had been an Egyptian and he had boasted of the fact.
Her ancestress had been baptized by the subject of the story.
An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King John.
Ova was my ancestress, and the knowledge of this mine is consequently a family secret for us.
The moon herself was claimed as the ancestress of certain families.
If the ancestress, or even Dorcas, or Chessun herself, would approve——'
The girl read and re-read the description of this ancestress, then gasped.
The Quaker woman Elizabeth Hooton was an ancestress of mine.
Today no small host of Americans have for ancestress the daughter of Powhatan.
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