Cyanates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 277 anagrams from letters in cyanates (aacensty).
First recorded in 1835-45; cyan(ic acid) + -ate2
By distilling a dry mixture of cyanate of potassa and sulphovinate of potassa in nearly equivalent proportions.
Potash solution converts it into a mixture of potassium cyanide and cyanate.
Caustic alkalis hydrolyse it readily to the alkaline chloride and cyanate.