Definitions for bitumen

bitumen bi·tu·men

Spelling: [bahy-too-muh n, -tyoo-, bi-, bich-
IPA: /baɪˈtu mən, -ˈtyu-, bɪ-, ˈbɪtʃ ʊ-/

Bitumen is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in bitumen (beimntu).

Definitions for bitumen

noun

  1. any of various natural substances, as asphalt, maltha, or gilsonite, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
  2. (formerly) an asphalt of Asia Minor used as cement and mortar.

Origin of bitumen

1425-75; late Middle English bithumen Latin bitūmen

Examples for bitumen

Sometimes the body, enveloped in the cloth, was covered with bitumen.

The nature of this bitumen is very different from that of coal.

Well, Nora, what is it that has brought you to bitumen at this of all times?

Mats, cushions, and bandages had all been treated with bitumen.

It looks like black sulphur (bitumen), and has a brimstone smell.

The arrow-heads were fixed into the shafts by means of bitumen.

Some of these walls he built of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only.

Many runways are asphaltic concrete—aggregate in a bitumen binder—which softens and melts under heat.

A few years ago birds began dying after landing on these lakes and getting slathered in bitumen.

Sailors approaching the coast in a fog can recognize the Santa Barbara Channel by the smell of bitumen which floats on the water.

Word Value for bitumen
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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