Melinites 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 330 anagrams from letters in melinites (eeiilmnst).
1885-90; French mélinite Greek mḗlin(os) made of apples (derivative of mêlon apple) + French -ite -ite1
But steel shells, with a bursting charge of melinite, do not encourage delusions.
There was not a foot of ground that was not covered as with a web by the shrapnel and melinite shells.
Shrapnel screamed all around, and melinite shells made the earth shake.
That shell will be cherished after extraction of its fuse and melinite charge.
With melinite you know the worst at once; it doesn't hang round like boxes of ammunition, for instance.
Pg 120 The whole place was dust and thunder and the half-acrid, half-fat, all-sickly smell of melinite.
The British call theirs "lyddite," the French "melinite" and the Japanese "shimose."
Cellars may give protection from fire or melinite; but they are worse than death traps against the heavy fumes of poisonous gas.
Explosive shells of melinite are the leading idea in France.
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.