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SPILITE

Specialty Definition: SPILITE

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Mining

An altered basalt, characteristically amygdaloidal or vesicular, in which the feldspar has been albitized and is typically accompanied by chlorite, calcite, epidote, chalcedony, prehnite, or other low-temperature hydrous crystallization products characteristic of a greenstone. Spilite often occurs as submarine lava flows and exhibits pillow structure. Adj:spilitic. The name was given by Brongniart in 1827. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SPILITE

Specialty definitions using "SPILITE": ophiolitespilitic suite, spilitization. (references)

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Anagrams: SPILITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-p-s-t"

-1 letter: pistil, pities, stipel.

-2 letters: islet, istle, pelts, pilei, piles, pilis, piste, plies, slept, slipe, slipt, speil, spelt, spiel, spile, spilt, spite, split, stile, stipe, tiles, tipis.

-3 letters: isle, leis, lept, lest, lets, lies, lipe, lips, lisp, list, lite, lits, pelt, pest, pets, pies, pile, pili, pits, plie, sept, silt, sipe, site, slip, slit.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: lippiest, pisolite, pitiless, polities, pyelitis.

 

+2 letters: dimpliest, ecliptics, explicits, limpsiest, phlebitis, pimpliest, pisolites, prelimits, rippliest, sepiolite, slippiest, spirituel, tailpipes, triplites.

 

+3 letters: capitalise, colpitises, epiblastic, epiglottis, epilations, epileptics, fieldstrip, implicates, isoplethic, lipsticked, multiplies, penalities, philistine, pilosities, pistillate, pitilessly, plasticine, plasticize, platinizes, plebiscite, polarities, polemicist, politicise, politicoes, positively, postexilic, prickliest, priestlier, pristinely, pyelitises, reptilians, sepiolites, septicidal, septillion, slimpsiest, specialist, speciality, spindliest, spiritedly, spiritless, tailpieces.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SPILITE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 50 49 4C 49 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010000 01001001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#80 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0050 0049 004C 0049 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53504346435439

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