Eclogites is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 414 anagrams from letters in eclogites (ceegilost).
1815-25; Greek eklog(ḗ) selection (see eclogue) + -ite1
In the Newlands boulder the diamonds have the appearance of being an original constituent of the eclogite.
Some regard the eclogite boulders as derived from deep-seated crystalline rocks, others as concretions in the blue ground.
eclogite, ek′loj-īt, n. a crystalline rock, composed of smaragdite and red garnet.
Omphacite, om′fa-sīt, n. a grass-green granular variety of pyroxene, one of the constituents of eclogite.