SPARITE

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. A descriptive term for the crystalline transparent or translucent interstitial component of limestone, consisting of clean, relatively coarse-grained calcite or aragonite that either accumulated during deposition or was introduced later as a cement. It is more coarsely crystalline than micrite, the grains having diameters that exceed 10 mu m b. A limestone in which the sparite cement is more abundant than themicrite matrix. (references)
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Anagrams: SPARITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, traipse.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: airest, aspire, esprit, paries, paster, pastie, paters, petsai, pietas, pirate, praise, prates, priest, rapist, repast, ripest, satire, spirea, sprite, striae, stripe, tapers, tapirs, terais, trapes, tripes.
	-2 letters: airts, apers, apres, apter, arise, asper, aster, astir, atrip, irate, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, peris, piers, pieta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: asperity, aspirate, crispate, grapiest, painters, pantries, parasite, paretics, parietes, parities, partiers, pastries, periapts, pertains, piasters, piastres, picrates, pilaster, pinaster, plaister, plaiters, practise, primates, pristane, privates, rapidest, raspiest, repaints, septaria, traipsed, traipses, triphase, wiretaps.
	+2 letters: antipress, aperients, aperitifs, appetiser, aspiratae, aspirated, aspirates, atrophies, atropines, baptizers, chapiters, crappiest, dipterans, disparate, disparted, eupatrids, expiators, firetraps, graphites, impacters, imparters, interlaps, livetraps, misparted, operatics, paltriest, parakites, parasites, parietals, particles, patissier, patronise, pearliest, pearlites, perianths, periostea, peripatus, periplast, phratries, pilasters, pinasters, pistareen, plaisters, practices, practised, practises, pratiques, preadmits, preaudits, pretrains, pretrials, priorates, pristanes, privatest, privatise, psalteria, psaltries, rebaptism, repasting, saprolite, satrapies, septarium, sparkiest, sparriest, sparteine, spearmint, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, terrapins, therapies, therapist, therapsid, topiaries, transpire, trapesing, trapezist, trapezius, traplines, triplanes, triptanes.
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