extremophile
Plural: extremophiles
Noun
- An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
Origin / Etymology
From extreme + -o- + -phile.
Scrabble Score: 26
extremophile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordextremophile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
extremophile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 28
extremophile is a valid Words With Friends word