Definitions for Galena

Galena ga·le·na

Spelling: [guh-lee-nuh]
IPA: /gəˈli nə/

Galena is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in Galena (aaegln).

Definitions for Galena

noun

  1. a common, heavy mineral, lead sulfide, PbS, occurring in lead-gray crystals, usually cubes, and cleavable masses: the principal ore of lead.

Origin of Galena

1595-1605; Latin: lead ore

Examples for Galena

The galena was managed and fought with great skill and daring.

The one is galena, a sulphuret of lead; the other, pyrites, a sulphuret of iron.

And do you suppose Yetmore recognized the sand as galena ore?

I'll write to my grandfather and ask him to send a horse to galena for me.

We drove in wagons with boards across for seats from Milwaukee to galena.

With the point of his pick he had hooked out a lump of galena as big as his head!

We took a steamer from galena to Stillwater, as everyone did in those days.

They proved to be a miner who had gone from galena and a stout lad.

About Dubuque, opposite galena, are extensive and rich lead mines.

In this condition the Oneida was pulled past the forts by her consort, the galena.

Word Value for Galena
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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