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Definition: FELSITE |
FELSITENoun1. A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz. |
Note: Felsite \Fel"site\, noun. [Compare to Feldspar.]. (Websters 1913) |
"FELSITE" is a common misspelling or typo for: felsitic. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | Name originally given by Kirwan to compact a microcrystalline variety of feldspar and later extended by Gerhard to cover microcrystalline and cryptocrystalline matrix of porphyries, especially rich in feldspar. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A general term for any light-colored, fine-grained or aphanitic extrusive or hypabyssal rock, with or without phenocrysts, and composed chiefly of quartz and feldspar; a rock characterized by felsitic texture.Syn:felstone; aphanite. CF:felsophyre. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FELSITE |
| English words defined with "FELSITE": Euritte ♦ Felsitic, Felstone ♦ Petrosilex. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FELSITE": quartz felsite, quartz porphyry. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
felsite | 4 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FELSITE": felsites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "FELSITE" (pronounced 'Fel"site'): Andalusite, Bedsite, Dissite, Jarosite, Mussite, Polybasite, Pyrolusite, rhodochrosite, Wasite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lefties, liefest. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: elites, filets, fleets, fliest, flites, itself, listee, stifle. | |
-2 letters: elite, feels, feist, felts, fetes, files, filet, flees, fleet, flies, flite, flits, islet, istle, leets, lefts, lifts, sleet, steel, stele, stile, teels, teles, tiles. | |
-3 letters: eels, efts, else, feel, fees, feet, felt, fete, fets, file, fils, fist, fits, flee, flit, isle, lees, leet, left. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fealties, felsites, fetiales, leafiest. | |
+2 letters: featliest, festively, filterers, fleabites, fledgiest, fleeciest, fleshiest, flextimes, lifestyle, lifetimes, refilters, telefilms, wifeliest. | |
+3 letters: afterlives, defoliates, despiteful, exfoliates, federalist, felicities, felinities, fertilizes, fetologies, fidelities, fieldstone, filmsetter, flatteries, fleshliest, flexitimes, floweriest, freckliest, futileness, interfiles, lifestyles, reinflates, stellified, stellifies, stoneflies, strifeless, tilefishes, whiteflies, wulfenites. | |
+4 letters: blueshifted, butterflies, closefisted, defilements, deflections, electrifies, federalists, felicitates, fertileness, fertilities, fertilizers, festinately, feudalities, feuilletons, fieldstones, filmsetters, fluoxetines, friendliest, interfluves, loftinesses, loosestrife, outfielders, prestigeful, reflections, spitefuller. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 4C 53 49 54 45 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-.. ... .. - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01001100 01010011 01001001 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E L S I T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 004C 0053 0049 0054 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40394653435439 |
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