Diorites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 307 anagrams from letters in diorites (deiiorst).
1820-30; French Greek dior(ízein) to distinguish (see di-3, horizon) + French -ite -ite1
Quartz porphyry, diabase and diorite appear in the Ardennes.
Contact metamorphism along both the quartz-porphyry and the diorite contacts was practically lacking.
Greenstone or diorite is usually a dull greenish rock, sometimes gray, however, speckled with green.
What is the mineralogical composition of syenite and diorite?
diorite is a crystalline aggregate of a soda-felspar and hornblende.
Felspar is one of the principal constituents of almost all igneous rocks, such as granite, diorite, and basalt.
The cliffs around Port Dickson consist of diorite, hard and difficult to break in pieces, but weathering readily.
diorite, dī′o-rīt, n. a crystalline granular igneous rock composed of feldspar and hornblende.
They are in diorite, and have the name of Apepi engraved upon them.
A diorite block, found at Susa in 1902, has the law engraved on it.