Definitions for massicot

massicot mas·si·cot

Spelling: [mas-i-kot]
IPA: /ˈmæs ɪˌkɒt/

Massicot is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in massicot (acimosst).

Definitions for massicot

noun

  1. monoxide of lead, PbO, in the form of a yellow powder, used as a pigment and drier.

Origin of massicot

1425-75; late Middle English masticot Middle French Italian massicotto Arabic masḥaqūniyā, perhaps Greek

Examples for massicot

When prepared below the temperature of fusion it is called “massicot.”

The white lead and massicot, so much employed for glazes, are 62 per cent.

It may be obtained by digesting with heat a solution of the neutral acetate, upon pure litharge or massicot.

massicot is the raw material for the manufacture of “red lead” or “minium.”

It is manufactured in two forms, known as “massicot” and “litharge.”

massicot and orpiment, he considers as those which have been the least permanent amongst all the mineral colours.

massicot, mas′i-kot, n. protoxide of lead or yellow oxide of lead.

Another coat is given, made with calcined white lead or massicot, ground in linseed oil and turpentine.

Word Value for massicot
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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