Melanites is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 732 anagrams from letters in melanites (aeeilmnst).
First recorded in 1800-10; melan- + -ite1
Biotite occurs in some of these rocks, and melanite also is present.
Their pyroxene is principally aegirine or aegirine augite; some of them are rich in melanite.
The dark matrix consists of biotite, aegirine-augite and melanite.
melanite is found in some of the lavas, as in the leucite-syenites.