Diatoms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 253 anagrams from letters in diatoms (adimost).
1835-45; New Latin Diatoma originally a genus name, feminine noun based on Greek diátomos cut in two. See dia-, -tome
diatom, dī′a-tom, n. one of an order of microscopic unicellular alg, of the diatomace.
The little things, he continued, delicately perforating the atmosphere as though selecting a diatom.
diatom ooze is the characteristic deposit in high southern latitudes.
He turns himself outside in, and makes a temporary stomach, and proceeds to digest the soft parts of the diatom.
This diatom is often found in abundance in the water supplies of cities.
The diatom itself may be washed in the same way, if it is not too small.
Frustule, frus′tūl, n. the siliceous two-valved shell of a diatom, with its contents.
The size of the diatom, the amount of gelatine, and several other factors, will enter into the question of success or failure.
In fact, the two pass without any sharp boundary into each other, and both present transitions to the diatom ooze.
It is necessary to avoid any air current which will cause the diatom to fall from the thread.