Saltpeter is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 596 anagrams from letters in saltpeter (aeelprstt).
1275-1325; earlier salt peter; replacing Middle English sal peter, salpetre Medieval Latin salpetrē, for Latin sal petrae salt of rock, so called because it commonly encrusts stones
They found a place where saltpeter was very thinly and erratically distributed.
In cases of rheumatism, one-half ounce of saltpeter may be added.
In 1792, it was the Venetian Embassy, under the Terreur a saltpeter factory.
In pickling the hams they are first vigorously rubbed with saltpeter and then with salt.
Drain off the liquid the next day and add a pound of saltpeter to it.
Rub fish with salt, brown sugar and saltpeter as above directed.
He says that it would be advisable to go to Patan and Sian for saltpeter and lead.
Dissolve the saltpeter in the vitriol and add it to the water.
Procure us some iron for the barrels, steel for the hammers, saltpeter.
Corned and smoked meats are usually preserved with saltpeter.
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