Fissile is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 80 anagrams from letters in fissile (efiilss).
1655-65; Latin fissilis, equivalent to fiss(us) (see fissi-) + -ilis -ile
Slate′-axe, a slater's tool, a sax; Slate′-clay, a fissile shale.
Other loadstones are of a leaden colour, fissile and not-fissile, capable of being split like slates in layers.
North Korea claims to have converted the fissile material into nuclear weapons.
The cliffs of this island are composed of a fissile primitive rock, on which sandstone reposes in regular beds.
The grits are of a fissile character, and are quarried extensively for flag-stone, ashlers, and fire-stone.
It appears to us from its use to have been either a quartzite or a fissile limestone.
This mineral is fissile, and moderately hard, which renders it fit for their peculiar ripe sculptures.
fissile, fis′il, adj. that may be cleft or split in the direction of the grain.
A fissile texture is occasionally assumed by clinkstone and other trap rocks, so that they have been used for roofing houses.
Mould, the earth of vegetables, is hardened into fissile slate, which being impregnated with bitumen becomes coal.
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