Lithology is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 157 anagrams from letters in lithology (ghillooty).
First recorded in 1710-20; litho- + -logy
We might say that a 'young lady, eminent for great skill in lithology, famed as the discoverer,' etc.
His observations on the lithology of the deposits accumulated beneath the sea were of special interest and importance.
It is nearly impossible to provide so abundantly, however, as for mineralogy and lithology.
Stone, as in lithology, the branch of medical science, relating to calculi or concretions.
The second year's work with lithology is carried on largely in the same way as with mineralogy.