Definitions for mica

mica mi·ca

Spelling: [mahy-kuh]
IPA: /ˈmaɪ kə/

Mica is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in mica (acim).

Definitions for mica

noun

  1. any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.

Origin of mica

First recorded in 1700-10, mica is from the Latin word mīca crumb, morsel, grain

Examples for mica

The mica has more than paid the working of the mine, and all the rest is clear profit.

The consequence was a vibration of the mica diaphragm to which the stylus was attached.

Granite is made of quartz, mica, and feldspar, as has been said before.

It occurs in the various feldspars and feldspathic rocks, and in mica.

But mica also wisely created a provision that allowed airports to opt-out of the TSA and use private screeners instead.

They are mining for mica, but the mine is more valuable in other respects than it is as a mica property.

Among them mica Mosbacher, who is now a regent at the University of Houston.

It is thus, thought we, that our manufacturers of fancy wax deal by their mica.

We can look upon the demand for mica as being in a certain sense settled.

The three planes gleamed like mica in the intense blue of the sky.

Word Value for mica
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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