Calcites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 358 anagrams from letters in calcites (acceilst).
First recorded in 1840-50; calc- + -ite1
The skeletons and shells of animals are made of calcite, a common mineral formed by the uniting of carbon, oxygen, and calcium.
The density of the globules (2.58) is similar to that of ordinary varieties of calcite.
Their occurrence here is in calcite veins in a bituminous limestone, but little seems to be known of their origin.
calcite is a soft mineral, light in weight, sometimes white, but oftener of some other colour.
The septa, radial plates of calcite reaching from the periphery nearly or quite to the centre of the coral-cup or calicle.
A vase of calcite, also dedicated by Entemena, has been found at Nippur.
The rauchstein of the modern section is distinguished by stringers of calcite, which give it at times a brecciated appearance.
calcite , calcium carbonate, a rock that includes limestone and marble.
Cerium looks like iron, having both its color and lustre, but is heavier, and has the hardness of calcite.
A dark compact rock, in which calcite and sericite predominate.