LACCOLITH

Definition: LACCOLITH

LACCOLITH

Noun

1. A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A concordant igneous intrusion with a known or assumed flat floor and a postulated, dikelike feeder commonly thought to be beneath its thickest point. It is generally plano-convex in form and roughly circular in plan, less than 5 miles (8 km) in diameter, and from a few feet to several hundred feet in thickness. See also:phacolith. (references)
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Crosswords: LACCOLITH

English words defined with "LACCOLITH": Laccolite. (references)

Specialty definitions using "LACCOLITH": bysmalith ♦ chonolith ♦ plutonic plug. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Laccolith Complexes of Southeastern Utah: Time of Emplacement and Tectonic Setting: Workshop Proceedings (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 2158) (reference) (more book examples)
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"LACCOLITH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LACCOLITH" is used about 2 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%	2	245,945

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Language		Translations for "laccolith"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		accolithlay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "LACCOLITH": laccolithic, laccoliths. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-i-l-l-o-t"
	-1 letter: catholic.
	-2 letters: challot, chaotic, lochial, thallic.
	-3 letters: calico, chalot, chital, cholla, citola, coital, hallot, hilloa, lactic, lochia, thalli.
	-4 letters: aitch, allot, altho, atoll, cacti, catch, chiao, chico, chill, clach, cloth, coach, coact, coati, colic, hallo, hillo, holla, laich, laith, latch, lathi, licht, lilac, litho, loach, loath, local, lotah, lotic, octal, thill, thiol, tical.
	-5 letters: alit, alto, call, calo, chao, chat, chia, chic, chit, ciao, clit, clot, coal, coat, coca, coil, cola, colt, hail, hall, halo, halt, hila, hill, hilt, holt, iota, itch, laic, lath, lati, lich, lilt, loca, loch, loci, lota, loth, loti, oath, ohia, olla, otic, tach, taco, tail, talc, tali, tall, thio, till, toil, tola, toll.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-i-l-l-o-t"
	+1 letter: laccoliths.
	+2 letters: chaotically, laccolithic.
	+3 letters: cathodically, catholically, dichotically, phyllotactic, thoracically.
	+4 letters: acetylcholine, chloroplastic, chromatically, ochlocratical, phallocentric, psychotically, technological.
	+5 letters: acetylcholines, achromatically, anchoritically, cycloaliphatic, eschatological, hypocritically, ichthyological, scholastically, stochastically, theocratically.
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