gothic
gothic is a valid 6-letter word worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
What does gothic mean?
A style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches.
A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries.
Extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas.
As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened.
Characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque.
“gothic novels like `Frankenstein'”
Characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German.
Of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths.
Of or relating to the Goths.