Nephrites is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 556 anagrams from letters in nephrites (eehinprst).
From the German word Nephrit, dating back to 1785-95. See nephr-, -ite1
The principal jades belong, however, to one or the other of two species, jadeite and nephrite.
Jadeite occurs in association with the nephrite of Turkestan, and possibly in some other Asiatic localities.
nephrite was also perhaps the first of all stones to be used ornamentally.
Both are made of the same material (nephrite) and both have their glyphs incised instead of carved.
But works executed in these minerals do not fetch a price at all comparable to that of nephrite.
Beside the commoner minerals five to eight per cent of implements made of nephritoids (nephrite, jadeite, and chloromelanite).
nephrite is said to occur also in the Pamir region, and pebbles are found in the beds of many streams.
The walls and pillars are inlaid with costly stones of various shapes: lapis-lazuli and malachite, nephrite and agate.
Whilst the term jade is popularly used in this sense, it is now usually restricted by mineralogists to nephrite.
nephrite is said to have been discovered in 1891 in the Nan-shan mountains in the Chinese province of Kan-suh, where it is worked.
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