Definitions for bitumens

bitumens bi·tu·men

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

Bitumens is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in bitumens (beimnstu).

Definitions for bitumens

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 bitumens

1425-75; late Middle English bithumen Latin bitūmen

Examples for bitumens

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 bitumens
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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