Cairngorm

Definition: Cairngorm

Cairngorm

Noun

1. A smoky yellow or brown quartz.

Date "cairngorm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Variety of quartz. Source: European Union. (references)
Chemistry	A yellow or smoky-brown variety of cristalline quartz-called also smoky quartz. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Smoky-yellow or brown varieties of quartz, the coloring matter probably due to some organic compound; named from Cairngorm in the Scottish Grampians; the more attractively colored varieties are used assemiprecious gem stones. Also called smoky quartz, smokestone. (references)
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Synonym: Cairngorm

Synonym: smoky quartz (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: cairngorm stone (chemistry, industry), smokier, smoky quartz.

Crosswords: Cairngorm

English words defined with "cairngorm": Cairngormstone. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cairngorm": cairngorm stone, crystalline quartz. (references)

Domain	Title
References	Cairngorm UK Financials Investment Trust P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)
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"Cairngorm" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.33% of the time. "Cairngorm" is used about 60 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 (proper)	98.33%	59	44,010
Noun (singular)	1.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	60	N/A

Expression using "cairngorm": cairngorm stone. 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 "cairngorm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		Жълт Или Светлочервен Кварц. (various references)

French		quartz fumé (cairn, cairngorm stone), quartz enfumé (cairngorm stone), quartz brun (cairngorm stone). (various references)

German		Rauchquarz (cairngorm stone, smoky quartz). (various references)

Hungarian		Füstkvarc (smoky quartz). (various references)

Pig Latin		airngormcay.(various references)

Portuguese		Topázio-de-espanha, Topázio-da-escócia, Quartzo-amarelo. (various references)

Russian		�"ымчатый Топаз. (various references)

Swedish		Röktopaz (smoky topaz). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: carroming.
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-m-n-o-r-r"
	-1 letter: armoring, caroming.
	-2 letters: carrion, coaming, marring, minorca, organic, roaming, roaring.
	-3 letters: agonic, anomic, arcing, arming, camion, caring, carrom, coming, coring, garcon, garron, gnomic, macing, macron, manioc, margin, marron, micron, morgan, oaring, onagri, orgiac, origan, racing, rancor, raring.
	-4 letters: acing, acorn, amigo, amino, amnic, amnio, among, argon, armor, cairn, cargo, carom, cigar, coign, conga, corgi, coria, gamic, gamin, garni, giron, gnarr, gonia, grain, groan, groin, imago, inarm, incog, macon, macro, magic, mango, manic, manor, micra, micro, minor, moira, narco, naric, noria, orang, orcin, organ, orgic, racon, rigor, roman.
	-5 letters: agin, agio, agon, airn, amin, amir, arco, cain, carn, carr, ciao, cion, coin, coir, coma, coni, corm, corn, crag, cram, gain, girn, giro, gnar, gram, gran, grim, grin, icon, inro, iron, magi, main, mair, mano, marc, mica, mina, moan, mora, morn, naoi, narc, noir, noma, nori, norm, ogam, orca, orra, ragi, rain, rami, rang, rani, ring, roam, roan, roar.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-m-n-o-r-r"
	+1 letter: cairngorms.
	+3 letters: micromanager, overcramming.
	+4 letters: ferromagnetic, micrographing, micromanagers, microorganism.
	+5 letters: intercomparing, microorganisms, microsporangia.
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