Definitions for charcoal

charcoal char·coal

Spelling: [chahr-kohl]
IPA: /ˈtʃɑrˌkoʊl/

Charcoal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in charcoal (aacchlor).

Definitions for charcoal

noun

  1. the carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic substances in the absence of air.
  2. a drawing pencil of charcoal.
  3. a drawing made with charcoal.

verb (used with object)

  1. to blacken, write, or draw with charcoal.
  2. to cook (food) over charcoal, especially on a grill.

verb (used without object)

  1. to cook food over charcoal, especially on a grill.

Origin of charcoal

1300-50; Middle English charcole, perhaps cherre char3 + cole coal, though literal sense of the compound is unclear

Examples for charcoal

Watercolors are strikingly identical and the charcoal works, done with color pencil, are deceptively perfect.

Repeat this wiping every day, rub a mixture of pepper and ginger on the inside, and put a large piece of charcoal into it.

Pieces of charcoal should also be put in the refrigerator and changed often.

Anything in your gut sticks to the surface of charcoal like a magnet and gets carried out through a bowel movement.

Coconut charcoal is charcoal from coconut shells that has been altered with oxygen to create lots of tiny pores.

The 4th of July is customarily marked by charcoal “cook-outs,” which endanger the community.

But the latter had only gone as far as the charcoal dealer's when she called her back.

But not all health care providers agree that charcoal should be used outside of a medical setting.

Already she had won a prize with a charcoal study of a bare back.

Do you remember that picture you drew with charcoal on a piece of pine board?

Word Value for charcoal
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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