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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A hole at or near the bottom of a furnace or ladle through which molten metal, matte, or slag can be tapped or drawn from a furnace. Also calledtapping hole. Syn:metal notch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TAPHOLE |
| Specialty definitions using "TAPHOLE": BLACK-ASH-BURNER OPERATOR, BLAST-FURNACE KEEPER, BLAST-FURNACE-KEEPER HELPER, bott plug, bott stick ♦ CASTING-OPERATOR HELPER, cupola liner, CUPOLA OPERATOR, INSULATION, CUPOLA PATCHER, CUPOLA TAPPER, CUPOLA TENDER ♦ drilling up ♦ furnace holding-the-iron, furnace tender ♦ green hole, guardplate ♦ iron runner ♦ metal pourer, mucky hole, mud gun ♦ open-hearth-furnace laborer, OXYGEN-FURNACE OPERATOR ♦ pricking bar ♦ RACK-ROOM WORKER, running off ♦ short hole ♦ THIRD HELPER, tymp stone ♦ WASH-HOUSE WORKER. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TAPHOLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | летка (tap). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rupa za slavinu. (various references) | |
Swedish | tapphål (mortice, mortise). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TAPHOLE": tapholes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: loathe, pelota. | |
-2 letters: aleph, altho, haole, helot, hotel, lathe, leapt, lepta, loath, lotah, palet, petal, plate, pleat, tepal, thole, tophe. | |
-3 letters: aloe, alto, atop, eath, epha, haet, hale, halo, halt, hate, heal, heap, heat, helo, help, hole, holp, holt, hope, late, lath, leap, lept, lope, lota, loth, oath, olea, opah, opal, pale, pate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: apholate, plethora, potlache, tapholes. | |
+2 letters: apholates, catchpole, halophyte, haplotype, phenolate, plethoras, potlaches, telophase. | |
+3 letters: apothecial, catchpoles, grapholect, halophytes, haplotypes, heptachlor, heptagonal, hospitable, houseplant, lithophane, methyldopa, myelopathy, pentathlon, phenolated, phenolates, polychaete, potlatched, potlatches, telophases, thiopental. | |
+4 letters: allelopathy, amphibolite, apophyllite, apostleship, autocephaly, cephalothin, epithelioma, grapholects, heptachlors, hospitalise, hospitalize, houseplants, hypocentral, hypothermal, lithophanes, lycanthrope, methyldopas, myelopathic, patchoulies, pathologies, pentathlons, perchlorate, phantomlike, phyllotaxes, phytoalexin, polychaetes, polymathies, prophetical, spheroplast, spirochetal, thallophyte, thiopentals. | |
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