Orpiments is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 875 anagrams from letters in orpiments (eimnoprst).
1350-1400; Middle English Old French Latin auripigmentum pigment of gold; see auri-1, pigment
It is now superseded as a pigment by chrome yellow and orpiment, which are not only more beautiful, but cheaper preparations.
Treacle, honey, or moist sugar, mixed with about 1⁄12th their weight of Kings yellow or orpiment.
For example, it seems to have been used as a medium for vermilion and orpiment.
orpiment, which is termed ἁρσενικὁν in Greek, is dug up in Pontus.
We have occasionally found Mars yellow mixed with orpiment, or chromate of lead, for the purpose of brightening the colour.
Both realgar and orpiment were important for pigments, medicinal purposes, and poisons among the Ancients.
To the unctuous juices belong these species: sulphur, bitumen, realgar and orpiment.
He made some twice with iron, and three times with orpiment.
Massicot and orpiment, he considers as those which have been the least permanent amongst all the mineral colours.
With sulphides or pigments containing sulphur, orpiment may be used with less danger.
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