Definitions for porcelain

porcelain por·ce·lain

Spelling: [pawr-suh-lin, pohr-; pawrs-lin,
IPA: /ˈpɔr sə lɪn, ˈpoʊr-; ˈpɔrs lɪn, ˈpoʊrs-/

Porcelain is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 779 anagrams from letters in porcelain (aceilnopr).

Definitions for porcelain

noun

  1. a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  2. ware made from this.

Origin of porcelain

1520-30; French porcelaine Italian porcellana orig., a type of cowry shell, apparently likened to the vulva of a sow, noun use of feminine of porcellano of a young sow, equivalent to porcell(

Examples for porcelain

Her skin was porcelain, her cheeks hollow, and her hair had been cut into high, blunt bangs.

They are all covered with cloth and rubber and are fastened with glass or porcelain knobs.

It eats through and corrodes the porcelain and then the wood flooring beneath it and, boom, down it comes.

Why should not the manufacture of porcelain equally enrich the Elector?

So how the hell do you work with a Belle Époque, over-the-top, over-gilded house full of French porcelain and furniture?

If the one be porcelain, and the other earthen ware, both are brittle!

Goldblum, himself looking prim with a porcelain saucer and teacup in hand, says he found this “wildly touching.”

This is done by an artist who looks at the makeup [from the show] and replicates it onto the porcelain.

I haven't a single child that has not won the porcelain cross for obedience.

Barter returned to the porcelain slab banked with the lights and the keys.

Word Value for porcelain
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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