Definitions for gypsum

gypsum gyp·sum

Spelling: [jip-suh m]
IPA: /ˈdʒɪp səm/

Gypsum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in gypsum (gmpsuy).

Definitions for gypsum

noun

  1. a very common mineral, hydrated calcium sulfate, CaSO 4 ⋅2H 2 O, occurring in crystals and in masses, soft enough to be scratched by the fingernail: used to make plaster of Paris, as an ornamental material, as a fertilizer, etc.

Origin of gypsum

1640-50; Latin: chalk Greek gýpsos chalk, gypsum

Examples for gypsum

In some of these domes are also found petroleum, gypsum, and sulphur (p. 110).

The United States is the largest producer of gypsum in the world.

Green and red marl, shale, and shaly limestone with some veins of gypsum.

To every hundred pounds of this powder, about three pounds of gypsum is added.

The sand dunes were relentlessly mined in the past century; power lines and a gypsum plant split the park.

Production of gypsum in the United States comes from eighteen states.

They remembered the gypsum hills over which they had ridden on the preceding day.

Fracking, in this regard, is no different from gypsum mining, or some kinds of industrial agriculture.

Beds of gypsum have been discovered on the head waters of the Pere Marquette.

"There is an extensive underlying layer of gypsum, here," he said.

Word Value for gypsum
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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