Definitions for powdery

powdery pow·der·y

Spelling: [pou-duh-ree]
IPA: /ˈpaʊ də ri/

Powdery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in powdery (deoprwy).

Definitions for powdery

adjective

  1. consisting of or resembling powder:
  2. easily reduced to powder:
  3. sprinkled or covered with or as with powder:

Origin of powdery

First recorded in 1400-50, powdery is from the late Middle English word powdry. See powder1, -y1

Examples for powdery

We broke through the crust and floundered in soft and powdery snow.

Both lads were immersed in powdery snow beneath the surface.

Pollen: the powdery substance borne by the stamen of the flower.

Kazakhstan has a cold winter which ensures it has powdery snow until late in the season.

It is approached by a narrow path, powdery on sunny days, navigable on rainy.

But Vasili Andreevich did not stop, but disappeared amid the powdery snow.

"Then the rainiest June since the 1950s helped the spread of downy and powdery mildew" he told The Telegraph.

It was ankle deep now, that powdery carpet of ice particles.

Had the snow been less light and powdery, he must have been crushed to the ground.

The snow was dry and powdery because the air was so cold, and it brushed away easily.

Word Value for powdery
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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