PEA GRIT

  

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PEA GRIT

Specialty Definition: PEA GRIT

DomainDefinition

Mining

The term pea grit has been used for a coarse pisolitic limestone. Such usage should be discontinued; it is erroneous. The term grit should be reserved for a coarse-grained sandstone composed of angular particles. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: PEA GRIT

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

Dutch

  

pisoliet (peastone, pisolite, pisolith). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pisoliitti (peastone, pisolite, pisolith). (various references)

   

French

  

pisolite (peastone), Mignonnette (pea gravel, peastone), gravillon (pea gravel, peastone), gravier roulé (pea gravel, peastone), gravier fin (pea gravel, peastone). (various references)

   

German

  

Pisolith (peastone, pisolite, pisolith), Erbsenstein (peastone, pisolite, pisolith). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πισσόλιθος (peastone, pisolite, pisolith). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pisolite (peastone, pisolite, pisolith). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eapay itgray

   

Portuguese

  

pisólito (peastone, pisolite, pisolith). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pisolit (peastone, pisolite, pisolith), ärtsten (peastone, pisolite, pisolith). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PEA GRIT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-p-r-t"

-1 letter: aigret, gaiter, parget, pirate, triage.

-2 letters: apter, atrip, gaper, grape, grate, great, gripe, gript, irate, pager, parge, pater, peart, pieta, prate, retag, retia, taper, tapir, targe, terai, terga, tiger, tragi, tripe.

-3 letters: ager, airt, aper, gait, gape, gate, gear, geta, girt, grat, grip, grit, page, pair, pare, part, pate, peag, pear, peat, peri.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: graphite, grapiest, pterygia, retaping, tapering.

 

+2 letters: carpeting, departing, graphites, operating, paltering, parenting, pargeting, partridge, pattering, preacting, predating, pretaping, purgative, repasting, repeating, replating, tampering, threaping, trapesing, uptearing.

 

+3 letters: arpeggiate, asperating, carpetings, chaptering, depurating, entrapping, epigastric, grapefruit, graphitize, graptolite, impregnant, impregnate, panegyrist, parentings, pargetting, parqueting, partnering, partridges, patterning, permeating, perorating, pertaining, pigmentary, plastering, precasting, pregenital, preheating, prepasting, pretasting, profligate, purgatives, readapting, readopting, repainting, repatching, replanting, restamping, separating, spattering, supergiant, trepanning.

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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