Definitions for melinite

melinite mel·i·nite

Spelling: [mel-uh-nahyt]
IPA: /ˈmɛl əˌnaɪt/

Melinite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in melinite (eeiilmnt).

Definitions for melinite

noun

  1. a high explosive containing picric acid.

Origin of melinite

1885-90; French mélinite Greek mḗlin(os) made of apples (derivative of mêlon apple) + French -ite -ite1

Examples for melinite

The British call theirs "lyddite," the French "melinite" and the Japanese "shimose."

Also the enemy fired a new kind of shell, believed to be melinite, which stifles a man to death and does not hit one at all.

Shrapnel screamed all around, and melinite shells made the earth shake.

Pg 120 The whole place was dust and thunder and the half-acrid, half-fat, all-sickly smell of melinite.

Explosive shells of melinite are the leading idea in France.

But steel shells, with a bursting charge of melinite, do not encourage delusions.

That shell will be cherished after extraction of its fuse and melinite charge.

There was not a foot of ground that was not covered as with a web by the shrapnel and melinite shells.

Cellars may give protection from fire or melinite; but they are worse than death traps against the heavy fumes of poisonous gas.

With melinite you know the worst at once; it doesn't hang round like boxes of ammunition, for instance.

Word Value for melinite
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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