Nephrite

Definition: Nephrite

Nephrite

Noun

1. An amphibole mineral consisting of calcium magnesium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade that is less valuable than from jadeite; once believed to cure kidney disorders.

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Variety of amphibole. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	An exceptionally tough, compact, fine-grained, greenish or bluish variety of amphibole (specif. tremolite or actinolite) constituting the less rareor valuable kind of jade. Syn:kidney stone; greenstone. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Nephrite

English words defined with "nephrite": jade, jadestone ♦ kidney stone ♦ nephritic stone ♦ Poenamu. (references)

Specialty definitions using "nephrite": American jade. (references)

"Nephrite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nephrite" is used about 28 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 (singular)	100%	28	65,706

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Language		Translations for "nephrite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nefrit (jade, nephritis). (various references)

Arabic		‏النفريت ضرب من اليشب. (various references)

Bulgarian		нефрит (axestone, greenstone, jade, kidney stone, nephritis). (various references)

Czech		nefrit (jade). (various references)

Danish		nefrit (greenstone jade). (various references)

Dutch		nefriet (greenstone jade, jade). (various references)

French		néphrite (nephritis). (various references)

German		Nephrit (greenstone jade). (various references)

Greek		νεφρίτης (greenstone jade, jade). (various references)

Hungarian		nefrit. (various references)

Italian		nefrite (greenstone jade, nephritis). (various references)

Manx		clagh ghlass (beryl, blue stone, green stone, jade). (various references)

Pig Latin		ephritenay

Portuguese		nefrite (axe-stone, ax-stone, greenstone jade, greensward, nephritic, nephritis), estudo das nuvens. (various references)

Russian		нефрит (axestone, axe-stone, green-stone, jade, nephritis). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nefrit (jade). (various references)

Spanish		nefrita (greenstone jade), lemanita, jade (jade). (various references)

Swedish		nefrit (axestone). (various references)

Ukranian		нефрит (axstone, greenstone, jade, nephritis). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nephrite": nephrites. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nephrite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nefertite, Neffortiti, neophrite, nephroid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nephrite" (pronounced ne"frīt)
3	-r ī t	barite, ferrite, pyrite.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: trephine.
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-n-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: neither, prithee, therein.
	-2 letters: either, entire, herein, hinter, inhere, nether, pterin, repent, repine, retine, theine, threep, triene.
	-3 letters: enter, ether, inept, inert, inter, ither, niter, nitre, peter, preen, print, rente, repin, retie, ripen, terne, thein, their, there, thine, three, thrip, treen, trine, tripe.
	-4 letters: erne, heir, hent, here, hern, hint, hire, neep, nite, peen, peer, pein, pent, peri, pert, pier, pine, pint, pirn, pith, pree, rein, rent, rete, ripe, rite, teen, tern, thee, then, thin, thir, tier, tine, tire, tree, trip.
	-5 letters: ere, ern, eth, hen, hep, her, het, hie, hin, hip, hit, ire, nee, net, nip, nit, nth, pee, peh, pen, per, pet, phi, pht, pie, pin, pit, ree, rei, rep, ret, rin, rip, tee, ten, the, tie, tin, tip.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-n-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: nephrites, phrenetic, threeping, trephined, trephines.
	+2 letters: antiherpes, externship, hemipteran, interphase, permethrin, pinfeather, preheating, telphering.
	+3 letters: externships, hemipterans, hemoprotein, interphases, metanephric, metanephroi, nephritides, parenthesis, parenthetic, pentarchies, permethrins, pinfeathers, rehypnotize, traineeship.
	+4 letters: decipherment, encipherment, hemoproteins, housepainter, hyperintense, hyperkinetic, hypersthenic, hypertension, hypertensive, listenership, neuropathies, parenthesize, picturephone, prehensility, rehypnotized, rehypnotizes, stepchildren, stereophonic, superheating, telegraphing, traineeships.
	+5 letters: decipherments, dryopithecine, encipherments, enteropathies, ethnographies, helicoptering, heterophonies, housepainters, hyperinflated, hypertensions, hypertensives, hypervirulent, iontophoreses, listenerships, morphogenetic, nephelometric, nephrectomies, nephrectomize, nephropathies, parenthesized, parenthesizes, parenthetical, phalansteries, phenmetrazine, picturephones, preanesthetic, precentorship, presidentship, pyrimethamine, replenishment, retinopathies, stenographies, stereophonies, terpsichorean, uprightnesses.
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