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THINOLITE

Definition: THINOLITE

THINOLITE

Noun

1. A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Thinolite \Thin"o*lite\, noun. [from Greek expression shore -lite.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: THINOLITE

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A tufa deposit of fibrous calcite pseudomorphous after an unknown precursor occurring on an enormous scale in northwestern Nevada; also occurs about Mono Lake, CA. It forms layers of interlaced pale yellow or light brown crystals, commonly skeletal with pyramidal terminations.Syn:thinolitic tufa. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: THINOLITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-l-n-o-t-t"

-2 letters: hotline, intitle, neolith.

-3 letters: entoil, eolith, ethion, iolite, litten, toilet, tonlet.

-4 letters: elint, eloin, helio, helot, hotel, inlet, lento, lithe, litho, lotte, nihil, olein, teloi, tenth, thein, thine, thiol, thole, tilth, tithe, title, toile.

-5 letters: elhi, enol, heil, helo, hent, hili, hilt, hint, hole, holt, hone, inti, into, leno, lent, lien, line, lino, lint.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-l-n-o-t-t"
 

+3 letters: silhouetting.

 

+4 letters: fortnightlies.

 

+5 letters: epithelization, monotheistical, rehabilitation, thermalization.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: THINOLITE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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