Definitions for lyddite

lyddite lydd·ite

Spelling: [lid-ahyt]
IPA: /ˈlɪd aɪt/

Lyddite is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in lyddite (ddeilty).

Definitions for lyddite

noun

  1. a high explosive consisting chiefly of picric acid.

Origin of lyddite

1885-90; named after Lydd, borough in SE England near the site where it was first tested; see -ite1

Examples for lyddite

Back to the British trenches also wafted the sickly fumes of lyddite and cresolite.

lyddite shells having found the range, about 3000 yards, opened fire upon Omdurman.

The smell of the lyddite was nauseating, the uproar stupefying.

Its red glarePg 220 is followed by flame that does not come from lyddite.

Here a corner of one of the massive entrance pillars had been sharply severed off by a British lyddite shell.

The gun uses shrapnel as well, but relies for its main effects on lyddite.

Major Elmslie threw altogether some 410 lyddite shells into Omdurman.

A few of Buller's lyddite shells were bursting near him, and one shell was seen to strike his magazine and explode it.

The explosion blackened our faces with lyddite and half-blinded us.

Their clothing, hands and faces were stained yellow from the lyddite fumes.

Word Value for lyddite
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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