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| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Mechanical desintegration, splitting, or breakup of a rock or soil due to the great pressure exerted by the freezing of water contained in cracks or pores, or along bedding planes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | A process that mechanically breaks apart rock caused by expansion of water as it freezes in cracks and crevices. (references) |
Mining | See:frost splitting. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FROST WEDGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | frostsprængning (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vorstverwering (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pakkasrapautuminen (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | éclatement par le froid (frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Frostsplittern (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation), Frostplatzen (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation), Frostbersten (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | απόσχιση λόγω παγετού (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation), αποκόλληση λόγω παγετού (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | fenditura da gelo (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation), spaccatura da gelo (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation), crepatura da gelo (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostfray edgingway gelivação (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) frostvittring (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-g-i-n-o-r-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: defrosting. | |
-3 letters: foresting, forewings, fostering, froggiest, frowsting, snowdrift. | |
-4 letters: digestor, disgorge, doggiest, dowering, downiest, drowsing, figworts, firedogs, foggiest, forewing, forgings, frosting, frowsted, genitors, grodiest, negroids, redwings, resowing, rowdiest, stodgier, stodging, strewing, stringed, strowing, towering, wendigos, widgeons, wordiest, wordings, worsting, wresting, wrongest. | |
-5 letters: defrost, diggers, dineros, dingers, dingoes, doggers, doggier, doggies, downers, downier, dowries, dowsing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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