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DRIP STONE

Specialty Definition: DRIP STONE

DomainDefinition

Geography

Pendant concretionary deposit of calcium carbonate formed from percolating solutions as an icicle-like mass on the roof of a limestone cavern and in other analogous situations. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: DRIP STONE

Language Translations for "DRIP STONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

stalaktit (stalactite). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stalaktiet (stalactite), stalactiet (stalactite). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

stalaktiitti (stalactite). (various references)

   

French

  

stalactite. (various references)

   

German

  

hängender Tropfstein (stalactite). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σταλακτίτης (stalactite). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stalattite (stalactite). (various references)

   

Manx

  

clagh heelee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ipdray onestay

   

Portuguese

  

estalactite (stalactite). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estalactita (stalactite). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stalaktit (stalactite). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DRIP STONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dripstone.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: diopters, dioptres, dipteron, peridots, pointers, porniest, portends, prisoned, proteids, proteins, protends, riposted, sprinted, topsider, tropines.

-2 letters: deports, deposit, dineros, diopter, dioptre, dipnets, disport, dopiest, editors, indorse, norites, oestrin, ordines, orients, orpines, peridot, periods, pinders, pintoes, podites, pointed, pointer, pointes, ponders, portend, posited, postern, printed, prostie, proteid, protein, protend, pterins, redtops, reposit, respond.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: desorption, dripstones, interposed, patronised, perditions, predations, terpenoids.

 

+2 letters: conscripted, copresident, decryptions, description, desorptions, desperation, disportment, nondescript, outsprinted, predictions, redemptions, topdressing.

 

+3 letters: copresidents, deportations, depravations, deprecations, depredations, deprivations, descriptions, desperations, dispensatory, disportments, endoparasite, impersonated, introspected, nondescripts, outspreading, periodontics, periodontist, predications, predigestion, predominates, premoistened, pretensioned, profundities, redepositing, repositioned, repudiations, spinsterhood, topdressings, trepidations.

 

+4 letters: antipredators, counterpoised, depreciations, deuteranopias, endoparasites, endoparasitic, lepidopterans, neuropeptides, nondisruptive, periodontists, postmodernism, postmodernist, preconditions, predestinator, predigestions, predilections, preinductions, privatdocents, privatdozents, propositioned, redemptioners, redescription, redisposition, reproductions, serendipitous, spinsterhoods, superaddition, superordinate.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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