Wet-Nurse is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 232 anagrams from letters in wet-nurse (-eenrstuw).
First recorded in 1775-85
"Well, I'm damned," said the wet-nurse And went out, looking thoughtful.
The choosing of a wet-nurse is a matter of great moment and responsibility.
The whole household were immediately sent in quest of a wet-nurse.
It cannot be learned whether when he was staying with the wet-nurse he ever had convulsions.
She wished they were larger though, and dreamed of having breasts like a wet-nurse.
She was to be his wet-nurse, and to assume the whole charge of the infant.
The potential role of the wet-nurse, in this context, begins to take on different significance.
I didn't engage to wet-nurse its infants with bank accounts.
There was no wet-nurse to be had, but a woman from the village had been sent for.
Of course the reader recognises in her the wet-nurse who had exchanged her child.