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Ambuscade
verb · 78% connection
A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Belemnite
noun · 78% connection
A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Blockhouse
noun · 78% connection
An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Calcification
noun · 78% connection
The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Calcified
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Calk
verb · 78% connection
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Chalybeate
adjective · 78% connection
Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Columbite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and mangane…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Diagonal
noun · 78% connection
(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Ferrous
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Gault
noun · 78% connection
A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Grivet
noun · 78% connection
A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Gyrolepis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Hematite
noun · 78% connection
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Impregnate
verb · 78% connection
To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furn…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Iron
noun · 78% connection
The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Jurassic
adjective · 78% connection
Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
Lady
noun · 78% connection
A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sandy, calcareous, straum, containing, impregnated.
