bloodletting

bloodletting has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
• n.. indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"
• n.. formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)