Definitions for crucibles

crucibles cru·ci·ble

Spelling: [kroo-suh-buh l]
IPA: /ˈkru sə bəl/

Crucibles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 366 anagrams from letters in crucibles (bcceilrsu).

Definitions for crucibles

noun

  1. a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures.
  2. Metallurgy. a hollow area at the bottom of a furnace in which the metal collects.
  3. a severe, searching test or trial.

Origin of crucibles

1400-50; late Middle English crusible, corusible Medieval Latin crucibulum; compare Anglo-French crusil, Old French croi-suel, croisol night lamp, crucible Gallo-Romance *croceolus (of uncert

Examples for crucibles

But it is also, anachronistically, a crucible that can reveal character.

Nature put into the crucible of a loving heart becomes poetry.

And what does it say if we look to war as a crucible for religious belief?

The fusion is conducted in a Fletcher's crucible furnace in a clay crucible.

Thus I was placed in the crucible for further refinement and regeneration.

Born in 1961, Barack Obama is our first president since JFK whose worldview was shaped in a non-Cold War crucible.

Herzog was never just a novel; from the beginning it was a symbol, a crucible, a shibboleth.

But the crucible was no longer—as then of pity; it was the crucible of love.

If the witness did in fact witness such a terrible crime, the testimony will survive in the crucible of cross-examination.

When fusion is complete, the contents of the crucible are poured into any suitable mould.

Word Value for crucibles
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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