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| Domain | Definition |
Geological | A fine-grained sedimentary rock consisting mostly of clay and/or silt. Mudstone, shale, siltstone, and claystone are all pelitic. (references) |
Mining | A. A sediment or sedimentary rock composed of the finest detritus (clay- or mud-size particles); e.g., a mudstone, or a calcareous sediment composed of clay and minute particles of quartz. The term is equivalent to the Latin-derived term lutite b. A fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of more or less hydrated aluminum silicates with which are mingled small particles of various other minerals; an aluminous sediment. Etymol: Greek pelos, clay mud.See also:psammite; psephite. Also spelled pelyte e.g., a mudstone, or a calcareous sediment composed of clay and minute particles of quartz. The term is equivalent to the Latin-derived term lutite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PELITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | pelit. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PELITE": pelites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-p-t" | |
-1 letter: elite. | |
-2 letters: leet, lept, lipe, lite, peel, pele, pelt, pile, plie, teel, tele, tile. | |
-3 letters: eel, lee, lei, let, lie, lip, lit, pee, pet, pie, pit, tee, tel, tie, til, tip. | |
-4 letters: el, et, it, li, pe, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-p-t" | |
+1 letter: epistle, pelites, penlite, perlite, petiole, pileate, reptile. | |
+2 letters: depilate, epistler, epistles, epistyle, lepidote, pearlite, peltries, penlites, perlites, petaline, petioled, petioles, pileated, plenties, poetlike, reptiles, spikelet, steplike, tapelike, tapeline. | |
+3 letters: antisleep, apetalies, clipsheet, depilated, depilates, depleting, depletion, depletive, diplotene, epileptic, epistlers, epistoler, epistyles, epithelia, eruptible, expletive, explicate, exploited, exploiter, implement, interlope, interpled, lepidotes, nephelite, paillette, palletise, palletize, pearliest, pearlites, pebbliest, pelleting, pelletise, pelletize, peltering, penalties, peristyle, pestilent, petallike, petechial, petiolate, petiolule, philtered, pistoleer, platelike, plenitude, pointelle, politesse, princelet, repletion, replicate, sepiolite, sleepiest, spikelets, splenetic, tailpiece, tapelines, terpineol, triplexes. | |
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