DOLERITE

Definition: DOLERITE

DOLERITE

Noun

1. A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. In the United States, a syn. of diabase b. In British usage, the preferred term for what is called diabase in the United States. Etymol: Greek doleros, "deceitful," in reference to the fine-grained character of the rock that makes it difficult to identifymegascopically. CF:diorite; trap. Syn:whin. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: DOLERITE

English words defined with "DOLERITE": Doleritic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "DOLERITE": ophitic. (references)

"DOLERITE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOLERITE" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Language		Translations for "DOLERITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		dolerit. (various references)

Dutch		doleriet. (various references)

Finnish		doleriitti. (various references)

French		dolérite. (various references)

German		Dolerit. (various references)

Greek		δολερίτης. (various references)

Pig Latin		oleriteday

Portuguese		dolerito. (various references)

Romanian		dolerit. (various references)

Spanish		dolerita. (various references)

Swedish		diabas (diabase). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "DOLERITE": dolerites. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"DOLERITE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daleyite, Doberiner, dolemite, Dolisie. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: loitered.
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: reoiled, retiled.
	-2 letters: dieter, dotier, editor, etoile, lieder, loiter, oreide, reedit, relied, retied, retile, retold, rioted, roiled, teredo, tiered, tirled, toiled, toiler, triode.
	-3 letters: deter, doter, droit, edile, eider, elder, elide, elite, erode, idler, lirot, liter, litre, oiled, oiler, older, oldie, oriel, relet, relit, reoil, retie, riled, teloi, tilde, tiled, tiler, tired, toile.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: dolerites.
	+2 letters: cloistered, delineator, interloped, meliorated, outdeliver, outfielder, overtoiled, retailored, siderolite, tenderloin.
	+3 letters: ameliorated, deleterious, delineators, dereliction, dilatometer, endometrial, heteroploid, interfolded, interlocked, lepidoptera, lionhearted, meteoroidal, obliterated, outdelivers, outfielders, overlighted, reconditely, sclerotized, siderolites, tenderloins, titleholder.
	+4 letters: deceleration, dechlorinate, decoratively, deliberation, depilatories, deregulation, derelictions, derogatively, dilatometers, editorialize, helicoptered, heteroploids, heteroploidy, immoderately, interpolated, lepidopteran, multitowered, orientalized, outdelivered, outglittered, overinflated, overutilized, overwithheld, postdelivery, predilection, proliferated, proselytised, proselytized, radioelement, reinoculated, temporalized, timberdoodle, titleholders, tredecillion, ventromedial.
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