Definitions for enamel

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enamel e·nam·el

Spelling: [ih-nam-uh l]

IPA: /ɪˈnæm əl/

Enamel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in enamel (aeelmn).

Definitions for enamel

noun

1. a glassy substance, usually opaque, applied by fusion to the surface of metal, pottery, etc., as an ornament or for protection.
2. enamelware.
3. any of various varnishes, paints, coatings, etc., drying to a hard, glossy finish.
4. any enamellike surface with a bright luster.
5. an artistic work executed in enamel.
6. Dentistry. the hard, glossy, calcareous covering of the crown of a tooth, containing only a slight amount of organic substance.

verb (used with object)

1. to inlay or overlay with enamel.
2. to form an enamellike surface upon:
3. to decorate as with enamel; variegate with colors.

Origin of enamel

1275-1325; Middle English enamelen Anglo-French enameler, enamailler, equivalent to en- en-¹ + -amaler, derivative of asmal, esmal enamel, Old French esmail

Examples for enamel

One suit was inlaid with enamel, black as ebony, and the other with red gold.

It was also employed in enamel painting as it vitrified without change.

Colwyn opened the silver and enamel box, and emptied the matches on the table.

Draw a picture of a tooth and label the crown, the enamel, the root, the pulp.

Motor-cars that were humiliating with their enamel and crystal were threading about.

Eventually, the fire sale extended to his personal belongings—including a $20 enamel teapot.

It is an enamel of the most superb and the rarest of elegant expressions in the Bible.

With the aid of an enamel bucket, Mr. Abraham Levinsky filled the bath.

In admixture it may safely be employed, as well as in fresco or enamel.

The enamel was cracked, and I followed every crack as well as every figure of the hours.