MELLITE

Definition: MELLITE

MELLITE

Noun

1. A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Mellite \Mel"lite\, noun. [Latin expression mel, mellis, honey: compare to the French expression mellite.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A tetragonal mineral, Al2 [C6 (COO)6 ].16H2 O; resinous; honey yellow; forms nodules in brown coal. Also spelledmelinite, mellilite. (Not melite.) Syn:honey stone. (references)
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Crosswords: MELLITE

English words defined with "MELLITE": Honeystone ♦ Mellitic. (references)

Etymologies containing "MELLITE": Mellitic. (references)

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Words rhyming with "MELLITE" (pronounced 'Mel"lite'): halite, Lucullite, Oblite, Perlite, Phyllite, Polyhalite, Scyllite, stylite, Xylite. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-l-m-t"
	-1 letter: millet.
	-2 letters: elemi, elite, mille.
	-3 letters: emit, item, leet, lilt, lime, lite, meet, mell, melt, mete, mile, mill, milt, mite, teel, teem, tele, tell, tile, till, time.
	-4 letters: eel, ell, elm, eme, ill, lee, lei, let, lie, lit, mel, met, mil, tee, tel, tie, til.
	-5 letters: el, em, et, it, li, me, mi, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-l-m-t"
	+1 letter: melilite, telefilm.
	+2 letters: emollient, guillemet, melilites, metallize, millerite, smelliest, telefilms, tillermen, willemite.
	+3 letters: emetically, emollients, guillemets, helmetlike, immortelle, metallized, metallizes, millerites, millimeter, multilevel, semilethal, timbrelled, timelessly, willemites.
	+4 letters: alkalimeter, allometries, emulatively, immortelles, inclemently, limelighted, lineamental, mellifluent, mesothelial, millimeters, multicelled, multiplexed, multiplexer, multiplexes, semilethals.
	+5 letters: alkalimeters, artillerymen, belittlement, blithesomely, elementarily, emblematical, hellgrammite, hermetically, illegitimate, incompletely, legitimately, metallurgies, meteorically, motivelessly, multielement, multilayered, multileveled, multiplexers, multivalence, planetesimal, semimetallic, thermolabile.
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