Definitions for porphyries

porphyries por·phy·ry

Spelling: [pawr-fuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈpɔr fə ri/

Porphyries is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 408 anagrams from letters in porphyries (ehiopprrsy).

Definitions for porphyries

noun

  1. a very hard rock, anciently quarried in Egypt, having a dark, purplish-red groundmass containing small crystals of feldspar.
  2. Petrology. any igneous rock containing coarse crystals, as phenocrysts, in a finer-grained groundmass.
  3. (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
  4. a very hard rock, anciently quarried in Egypt, having a dark, purplish-red groundmass containing small crystals of feldspar.
  5. Petrology. any igneous rock containing coarse crystals, as phenocrysts, in a finer-grained groundmass.
  6. (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.

Origin of porphyries

1350-1400; Middle English porfurie, porfirie Medieval Latin porphyreum, alteration of Latin porphyrītēs Greek porphyrī́tēs porphyry, short for porphyrī́tēs líthos porphyritic (i.e., purplish)

Examples for porphyries

Five others were seated on boxes about a boulder that looked like porphyry outcrop.

This is commonly illustrated by the ancient tree of porphyry.

White graves or black, linen or porphyry, Are all one to me.

He figgers this sylvanite lies under this porphyry reef, sabe?

In the distance a curtain of porphyry and bisque drew its shadow across the moon.

porphyry gives three lists of the works of the various periods.

Plotinos was willing, and sent them to Sicily where porphyry had retired.

"The porphyry dykes here are in syncline," the engineer went on.

I was certain that she must have read Iamblichus and porphyry.

The crystals are monoclinic and occur in porphyry almost exclusively.

Five others were seated on boxes about a boulder that looked like porphyry outcrop.

Plotinos was willing, and sent them to Sicily where porphyry had retired.

The crystals are monoclinic and occur in porphyry almost exclusively.

In the distance a curtain of porphyry and bisque drew its shadow across the moon.

porphyry gives three lists of the works of the various periods.

He figgers this sylvanite lies under this porphyry reef, sabe?

This is commonly illustrated by the ancient tree of porphyry.

"The porphyry dykes here are in syncline," the engineer went on.

I was certain that she must have read Iamblichus and porphyry.

White graves or black, linen or porphyry, Are all one to me.

Word Value for porphyries
Scrable

21

Words with friends

20

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