Definitions for schists

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Spelling: [shist]
IPA: /ʃɪst/

Schists is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in schists (chissst).

Definitions for schists

noun

  1. any of a class of crystalline metamorphic rocks whose constituent mineral grains have a more or less parallel or foliated arrangement.

Origin of schists

1775-85; New Latin schistus, Latin (lapis) schistos Greek schistós divided, curdled, divisible, derivative of schízein to split, with -tos adj. suffix

Examples for schists

I think that would be schist about as good as anything you could do.

There the vein had failed, between the schist and the tertiary sandstone.

This schist rock when rich in copper, as I have said elsewhere, exudes a substance of a nature similar to asbestos.

Here and there are mixtures of schist, gneiss, and porphyry.

Sometimes quartz, schist, or marble is of this quality also, if much native or rudis silver adheres to it.

Why should the schist pendant of the Tappock chamber be all right, if the claystone pendant of Dunbuie be all wrong?

From time to time Tundup Sonam reared up a slab of schist to show the way to Tsering, who was coming behind without a guide.

The hills which bound the valley of the creek are basalt, sandstone, and schist.

We found that there actually were three quadrangular walls constructed of slabs of schist, probably of very ancient date.

General view of junction of granite and schist of the Valorsine.

Word Value for schists
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