unicameral

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/juːniːˈkaməɹəl/
See all 2 pronunciations
/juːniːˈkaməɹəl/ · /junɪˈkæməɹəl/

Definition of unicameral

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, or having, a single legislative chamber.
    “Those who criticize bicameralism stress that a unicameral legislature will be more efficient and faster in taking decisions.”
    “[W]e could define a national parliament broadly as a Member State's central representative assembly which elects or at least dismisses the national government, and which holds it to account. This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the bicameral parliaments and the senates with censure powers in the EU Member States.”
    “In 1951 New Zealand's parliament was converted into a unicameral one with the abolition of the upper, nominated chamber, the Legislative Council.”
See all 2 definitions

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, or having, a single legislative chamber.
    “Those who criticize bicameralism stress that a unicameral legislature will be more efficient and faster in taking decisions.”
    “[W]e could define a national parliament broadly as a Member State's central representative assembly which elects or at least dismisses the national government, and which holds it to account. This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the bicameral parliaments and the senates with censure powers in the EU Member States.”
    “In 1951 New Zealand's parliament was converted into a unicameral one with the abolition of the upper, nominated chamber, the Legislative Council.”
  2. (not-comparable)Of a script or typeface: making no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather having only one case.
    “In the ancient world, Greek was written in a script that was unicameral and atonic. It consisted of a single set of forms – the ones we now regard as upper case. There was little or no punctuation, and there were no diacritics.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From uni- + cameral.

Anagrams of unicameral

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from unicameral

200+ playable · top: NUMERICAL (13 pts)

Best play numerical 13 points

8-letter words

5 words

7-letter words

47 words

6-letter words

103 words

5-letter words

44 words

Find your best play with unicameral

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes unicameral, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.