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Word entry · 10 letters

anthracite

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"Hard, shiny coal"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/Part of speech nounSorted aacehinrttStarts with AEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2N3T4H5R6A7C8I9T10E

Definitions

  1. a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat

Word origin

Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.

Used in a sentence

  • In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!

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