Nitre is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 65 anagrams from letters in nitre (einrt).
1375-1425; late Middle English nitre Latin nitrum Greek nítron natron
An excellent diet drink may be made of toast and water, with the addition of a little vinegar, or a few grains of nitre.
There is no sulphur in the States; nitre and charcoal abound.
What are the nitre caves of the western country, and how is nitre extracted from the earth?
Mercury, sulphur, saltpetre or nitre, I do not know that they have.
nitre, or "nitrate," is a native nitrate of potash, or nitrate of soda.
The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of nitre, gives a red.
When nitre is burned with sulphur, the product is sulphate of potash, etc.
In a little while the nitre began to come in to the powder-factories.
What proportion of nitre does the saltpetre of the nitrate caves afford?
What reagents are used to discover the presence of foreign substances in nitre?