Basalt is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 114 anagrams from letters in basalt (aablst).
1595-1605; Latin basaltēs, a misreading, in manuscripts of Pliny, of basanītēs Greek basanī́tēs (líthos) touchstone, equivalent to básan(os) touchstone (ultimately Egyptian bh̬n(w) graywacke)
There was finality miles deep and fixed as basalt in his tone.
Many varieties of stone were used, but the preference was given to basalt.
Tiresias came next, in a basalt chariot, yoked to royal steeds.
The statues of basalt rolled their eyes and smiled hideously.
They had also said something about pot holes like shafts in the basalt.
Behold, my flesh is solid as basalt, my bones are bars of steel!
A good solid rock, like basalt, can be cut into slices of about 3/32 inch thick.
Somewhere in the basalt hills a lion roared, the sound carrying through the night until another responded.
Its form was that of a cube, 12 feet on each side, and it stood on a block of basalt.
Of what use would porphyry, or granite, or basalt be for such purposes?