Definitions for percolator

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percolator per·co·la·tor

Spelling: [pur-kuh-ley-ter]

IPA: /ˈpɜr kəˌleɪ tər/

Percolator is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 633 anagrams from letters in percolator (acelooprrt).

Definitions for percolator

noun

1. a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
2. something that percolates.

Origin of percolator

First recorded in 1835-45; percolate + -or²

Examples for percolator

To filter, using the percolator, the coffee should be quite fine.

Bob can make the coffee in the percolator in a little while, when we're ready.

Breakfast—If a percolator is used it should first be put into operation.

In the dining-room is an electric chafing dish and a percolator.

The cereal was in the double boiler and the coffee in the percolator, already.

(Troy) of ginger in fine powder into a percolator, and pour on it 12 ounces (old measure) of pure ether.

The question of sleep thus disposed of, I brought out my percolator.

In this treatise he describes and illustrates the Rumford percolator.

She stopped pouring, set the percolator down and looked at me solemnly.

This coffee that I've been making in the percolator is all ready, Bettina!