Definitions for macadams

macadams mac·ad·am

Spelling: [muh-kad-uh m]
IPA: /məˈkæd əm/

Macadams is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in macadams (aaacdmms).

Definitions for macadams

noun

  1. a macadamized road or pavement.
  2. the broken stone used in making such a road.

Origin of macadams

1815-25; named after J. L. McAdam (1756-1836), Scottish engineer who invented it

Examples for macadams

There was a heavy, jarring rumble over the macadam of the military road.

Cool, dry weather; relatively but not totally flat terrain; soft running surfaces, like dirt, gravel or macadam.

They gained the macadam of the lane that led out from the park gate into the country.

macadam asked that he should at least be bound over to keep the peace.

These are paved with concrete block and the other streets with macadam.

Some wonderful records were made in these contests on the macadam.

The pond is filled up now with the macadam of a model farmyard.

Utilitarianism was too much for it, and its stones fell to macadam.

It was not cemented, but its hard clay floor was almost as solid as macadam.

They are used as dust layers on earth, gravel and macadam surfaces.

Word Value for macadams
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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