TEMPERING COLOR

Definition: TEMPERING COLOR

TEMPERING COLOR

1. The shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors, and tools for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives, screw taps, etc.; brown yellow for axes, chisels, and plane irons; yellow tinged with purple for table knives and shears; purple for swords and watch springs; blue for springs and saws; and very pale blue tinged with green, too soft for steel instruments.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anagrams: TEMPERING COLOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-r-r-t"
	-3 letters: colorimeter, intercooler.
	-4 letters: clinometer, compeering, completing, completion, comporting, electroing, ergometric, erotogenic, goniometer, incomplete, interloper, orogenetic, petrologic, precooling, prelecting, prelection, proctoring, progenitor, recoloring, teleonomic.
	-5 letters: centriole, coempting, compering, competing, completer, coopering, coprolite, ergonomic, geometric, geotropic, greenroom, impotence, intercrop, interlope, merocrine, micropore, microtone, necropoli, oogenetic, peltering, policemen, portering, precentor, princelet, prolonger, promoting, reception, recompile, remelting, repletion, reporting, retooling, tempering, terpineol.
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