Pyrite is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 107 anagrams from letters in pyrite (eiprty).
1560-70; Latin pyrītēs Greek pyrī́tēs, noun use of adj.: of fire, so called because it produces sparks when struck. See pyr-, -ite1
The most common petrifying materials are calcite, silica, and pyrite (p. 13).
pyrite, the yellow iron sulphide, is the commonest and most abundant of the metallic sulphides.
Wherever flint and pyrite are to be had these are used for striking fire.
A few small crystals of pyrite were then placed in the bottle of solution, and the gold began immediately to precipitate on them.
Before the war domestic sources supplied a fourth to a third of the domestic demand for pyrite.
Marcasite and pyrrhotite, other iron sulphide minerals, are frequently found with pyrite and are used for the same purposes.
Even when only a small proportion of mundic, pyrite or marcasite is present, it is highly objectionable for several reasons.
He, however, puts it on one side as merely a synonym for pyrite, nor can it be satisfactorily defined in much better terms.
pyrite, pī′rīt, n. native iron disulphide of a pale-yellow colour and very hard—also Iron pyrites.
The principal use of pyrite is in the manufacture of sulphuric acid.