SELENITE

Definitions: SELENITE

SELENITE

Noun

1. A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.

2. A salt of selenious acid.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SELENITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. Finely crystallized gypsum b. A clear, colorless variety of gypsum, occurring (esp. in clays) in distinct, transparent monoclinic crystals or in large crystalline massesthat cleave easily into broad folia. Syn:spectacle stone. (references)
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Crosswords: SELENITE

English words defined with "SELENITE": Selenitical. (references)

Specialty definitions using "SELENITE": fossil ice ♦ maria glass ♦ Sodium Selenite, spectacle stone. (references)

Non-English Usage: "SELENITE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (moonstone), Portuguese (moonstone).

"SELENITE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "SELENITE" is used about 4 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)	75%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Expression using "SELENITE": Sodium Selenite. Additional references.
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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.

Language		Translations for "SELENITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		селенит. (various references)

Chinese		亚�'酸盐. (various references)

Danish		selenit. (various references)

Dutch		seleniet. (various references)

French		sélénite. (various references)

German		Selenit. (various references)

Greek		σεληνιώδες, σεληνίτησ. (various references)

Italian		selenito. (various references)

Pig Latin		elenitesay

Romanian		selenit (lunarian). (various references)

Russian		селенит. (various references)

Spanish		selenito, selenita. (various references)

Ukranian		селеніт (gypsum). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "SELENITE" (pronounced se"lunī't)
5	-l u n ī' t	franklinite.
4	-u n ī' t	ammonite, bentonite, limonite, monzonite, suburbanite, urbanite.
3	-n ī' t	finite, fortnight, lignite, midnight, unite.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: enlistee.
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-l-n-s-t"
	-1 letter: eeliest, lisente, setline, steelie, stelene, tensile.
	-2 letters: elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, inlets, listee, listen, nestle, senile, silent, tinsel.
	-3 letters: elint, elite, inlet, inset, islet, istle, leets, lenes, lenis, lense, liens, lines, lints, neist, nites, seine, sente, senti, sleet, steel, stein, stele, stile, teels, teens, teles, tense, tiles, tines.
	-4 letters: eels, else, isle, lees.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-l-n-s-t"
	+1 letter: enlistees, extensile, selenites.
	+2 letters: belemnites, clienteles, delineates, extensible, genteelism, gentilesse, lienteries, nephelites, pestilence, queenliest, reenlisted, sentineled, singletree, spleeniest, steeliness, telegonies.
	+3 letters: centerlines, defilements, deselecting, entelechies, eternalizes, extensively, externalise, fertileness, genteelisms, gentilesses, heavenliest, interleaves, lithenesses, percentiles, pestilences, reelections, revilements, sentinelled, singletrees, skeletonise, skeletonize, swingletree, telekineses, telekinesis, teleonomies, telephonies, terrepleins, unseemliest, unselective.
	+4 letters: bedevilments, beguilements, belligerents, delicatessen, deliquescent, detailedness, dilutenesses, electioneers, electiveness, entitlements, essentialize, externalised, externalises, externalizes, fleetingness, futilenesses, generalities, implementers, interdealers, interestedly, intermeddles, interrelates, intersterile, leukotrienes, literateness, littlenesses, mantelpieces, needlepoints, nephelinites, nonelectives, nonselective, politenesses, preelections, preselecting, preselection, reenlistment, sedimentable, serpentinely, silentnesses, skeletonised, skeletonises, skeletonized, skeletonizer, skeletonizes, steelinesses, swingletrees, teleprinters, terribleness, timelessness, timelinesses, tirelessness.
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