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Definition: LITHARGE |
LITHARGENoun1. Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot. |
Date "LITHARGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | Lead oxide, more particularly lead oxide in orange-yellow or reddish powder or scales. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A tetragonal mineral, PbO ; red; dimorphous with massicot, which isyellow. Syn:lead ocher; lithargite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LITHARGE |
| English words defined with "LITHARGE": Adhesive plaster ♦ Litarge, Lithargyrum ♦ Massicot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LITHARGE": feathers of litharge, furnace-room supervisor ♦ oxide-furnace tender ♦ RED-LEAD BURNER ♦ SUPERVISOR, LITHARGE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "LITHARGE": Litarge, Lithargyrum. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LITHARGE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (litharge). |
| 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 |
litharge | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LITHARGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المرتك أول أكسيد الرصاص. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оловен окис (massicot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | soelvergloed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | loodoranje, loodglit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | litharge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lithargyrum, Bleiglaette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιθάργυροσ, λιθάργυρος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ólomglét. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | litargirio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 밀타승. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | clagh argid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ithargelay litargírio (lithe), divisão (allotment, boundary, compartment, dismiss, division, fissure, fraction, frontier, head, hedge, melancholia, military division, parceling, parcelling, parting, scission, section, separation, severance, split). (various references) litargã (massicot), masicot (massicot). (various references) свинцовый глет. (various references) olovna gleđ. (various references) litargirio. (various references) silverglöd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "LITHARGE": litharges. (additional references) | |
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"LITHARGE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: githago, lithargy, Lithrig, Lothagam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: thirlage. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: alright, lathier, lighter, relight. | |
-2 letters: aiglet, aigret, alight, aright, gaiter, gather, gelati, glaire, hailer, halite, halter, hegari, hegira, lather, ligate, lither, regilt, retail, retial, tailer, tergal, thaler, triage. | |
-3 letters: agile, aglet, airth, alert, alter, argil, argle, ariel, artel, earth, eight, garth, gerah, girth, glair, glare, grail, grate, great, grith, haler, hater, heart, hilar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: earthling, ghastlier, haltering, lathering, lethargic, litharges, thirlages. | |
+2 letters: blathering, earthlight, earthlings, leathering, lethargies, lighterage, slathering, theurgical. | |
+3 letters: earthlights, enthralling, farthingale, lamplighter, lighterages, nightwalker, searchlight, telegraphic. | |
+4 letters: anthologizer, archeologist, bigheartedly, cartwheeling, exhilarating, farsightedly, farthingales, featherlight, hearteningly, hellgrammite, lamplighters, lighthearted, lithographed, lithographer, nightwalkers, searchlights, shatteringly, slaughtering, stringhalted, telegraphies, telegraphing, telegraphist, thermalizing, ultraheating. | |
+5 letters: anthologizers, archaeologist, archeologists, candlelighter, copyrightable, etherealizing, graphitizable, hellgrammites, hypervigilant, lethargically, lithographers, lithographies, nearsightedly, orthogonalize, phraseologist, straightlaced, stylographies, telegraphists, threateningly, woolgathering. | |
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