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ORTSTEIN

Specialty Definition: ORTSTEIN

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Continuous hardpan as a result of incrustation of tropical soil by ferric oxide and aluminium dehydratation. Source: European Union. (references)
 A formation which occurs by precipitation of dissolved materials, such as calcium carbonate or silica, at certain depths below the surface year after year. When this accumulation takes place, the subsoil is more or less firmly cemented and limits downward movement of water. This formation does not soften when wetted by water. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: ORTSTEIN

Non-English Usage: "ORTSTEIN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (hardpan, ortstein, podzolic layer).

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Modern Translation: ORTSTEIN

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

Danish

  

myremalm (bog iron, bog iron ore, bog ore, ironstone, lake ore, limnite, limonite, marsh ore, meadow ore, morass, swamp ore), lateritskoppe (bog iron, ironstone, limonite), al (all, all the, each, every, every one, everybody, everyone). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

oerlaag (hardpan, pan, podzolic layer), oerbank (hardpan, iron pan, pan, podzolic layer), oer (bog iron, ironstone, limonite), podzollaag (hardpan, podzolic layer), podzolbank (hardpan, podzolic layer), podzolachtige laag (hardpan, podzolic layer), moerasijzererts (bog iron, ironstone, limonite), moeraserts (bog iron, bog iron ore, bog ore, ironstone, lake ore, limnite, limonite, marsh ore, meadow ore, morass, swamp ore), limoniet (bog iron, brown iron ore, ironstone, limonite), ijzeroer (bog iron, ironstone, limonite). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rikastumiskerros (hardpan, podzolic layer), rautapalsi (hardpan, iron pan, podzolic layer), podsolin kasaantumistaso (hardpan, podzolic layer), podsolin B-taso (hardpan, podzolic layer), palsi (hardpan, pan, podzolic layer), kasaantumiskerros (hardpan, podzolic layer), illuviaalitaso (hardpan, podzolic layer), illuviaalikerros (hardpan, podzolic layer), anturamaa (hardpan, pan, podzolic layer, softpan), antura (sole). (various references)

   

French

  

ortstein, cuirasse ferrugineuse, cuirasse. (various references)

   

German

  

Ortstein (hardpan, podzolic layer), Orterde (hardpan, podzolic layer), Sumpferz (bog iron, bog iron ore, bog ore, ironstone, lake ore, limonite), Raseneisenstein (bog iron, bog iron ore, bog ore, ironstone, lake ore, limonite), Raseneisenerz (bog iron, bog iron ore, bog ore, ironstone, lake ore, limnite, limonite, marsh ore, meadow ore, morass, swamp ore). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

orstein (hardpan, podzolic layer), σκληρός σιδηρούχος ορίζων συσσωρεύσεως (hardpan, podzolic layer). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ortstein (hardpan, podzolic layer), orterde (hardpan, podzolic layer), limonite (bog iron, brown iron ore, ironstone, limonite), crostone (hardpan, pan, podzolic layer), concrezione ferruginosa (bog iron, ironstone, limonite). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortsteinay

   

Portuguese

  

ortstein (hardpan, podzolic layer), surraipa dura (hardpan, podzolic layer), hardpan (hardpan, podzolic layer). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ortstein (hardpan, podzolic layer), piedra ferruginosa (bog iron, ironstone, limonite), limonita (bog iron, ironstone, limonite), capa dura (hardpan, pan, podzolic layer, softpan). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ortsten (hardpan, iron pan, pan, podzolic layer), skenhälla (hardpan, iron pan, pan, podzolic layer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ORTSTEIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: snottier, tenorist, tritones.

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

-1 letter: intorts, norites, oestrin, orients, retints, stentor, stinter, stonier, tinters, toniest, tritone, tritons.

-2 letters: estrin, inerts, insert, inters, intort, intros, irones, nestor, niters, nitres, nitros, norite, nosier, noters, orient, otters, retint, rotten, rottes, senior, sinter, sitten, sitter, sortie, stoner, stotin, tenors, tensor, teston, tinter, titers, titres, toners, tonier, tories, torten, tortes, toters, triens.

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

+1 letter: cornetist, stationer, tenorists, tenorites, thorniest, trotlines.

 

+2 letters: anorthites, birthstone, carnotites, concretist, cornetists, cornettist, detritions, extortions, introjects, introspect, introverts, iterations, monetarist, natrolites, orientates, pinspotter, protesting, respotting, retentions, stationers, stationery, stentorian, threnodist, tormentils, tretinoins, tricotines, trisection.

 

+3 letters: alterations, anorthosite, antistories, antistrophe, birthstones, concretists, constricted, contrastive, contributes, cornettists, countersuit, creationist, destruction, detractions, disportment, eructations, extractions, forestation, foretasting, frostbitten, integrators, intercostal, interpoints, introspects, literations, marionettes, monetarists, negotiators, noninterest, notorieties, orientalist, outsprinted, outsteering, outstridden, oversetting, overstating, peritonitis, petitioners, pinspotters, pretentious, protections, recitations, refutations, repetitions, reputations, restitution, restoration, restriction, retractions, rotundities, septentrion, strenuosity, tensiometer, tensiometry, terminators, thorianites, threnodists, throatiness, tolerations, tonometries, tortellinis, tourniquets, trabeations, trajections, transection, trisections, undistorted, unworthiest, ventilators, zwitterions.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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