Definitions for sunstone

sunstone sun·stone

Spelling: [suhn-stohn]
IPA: /ˈsʌnˌstoʊn/

Sunstone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in sunstone (ennosstu).

Definitions for sunstone

noun

  1. a reddish variety of oligoclase feldspar, used as a gem, having a red and bright-yellow play of color.

Origin of sunstone

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at sun, stone

Examples for sunstone

The gentleman on my left is Jack Holloway, the sunstone operator, who is the original discoverer.

sunstone is the term by which those kinds of Feldspar are known which reflect a spangled yellow light.

He loved the red-gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.

sunstone culture because of the sun worship and the megaliths.

sunstone is a feldspar which includes tiny flakes or spangles of some other mineral.

The gems known as moonstone and sunstone owe the play of colors which gives them their respective names to similar causes.

On the fifteenth chunk, he got an interruption pattern that told him that a sunstone—or something, probably something—was inside.

She set down the glass and rubbed the sunstone on her finger.

The sheen of sunstone is best visible when the stone is held in the sunlight or strong artificial light.

He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.

Word Value for sunstone
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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