Lyddites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 226 anagrams from letters in lyddites (ddeilsty).
1885-90; named after Lydd, borough in SE England near the site where it was first tested; see -ite1
The gun uses shrapnel as well, but relies for its main effects on lyddite.
The explosion blackened our faces with lyddite and half-blinded us.
Here a corner of one of the massive entrance pillars had been sharply severed off by a British lyddite shell.
Their clothing, hands and faces were stained yellow from the lyddite fumes.
A few of Buller's lyddite shells were bursting near him, and one shell was seen to strike his magazine and explode it.
Major Elmslie threw altogether some 410 lyddite shells into Omdurman.
Back to the British trenches also wafted the sickly fumes of lyddite and cresolite.
The smell of the lyddite was nauseating, the uproar stupefying.
Its red glarePg 220 is followed by flame that does not come from lyddite.
lyddite shells having found the range, about 3000 yards, opened fire upon Omdurman.
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