Definitions for trachyte

trachyte tra·chyte

Spelling: [trey-kahyt, trak-ahyt]
IPA: /ˈtreɪ kaɪt, ˈtræk aɪt/

Trachyte is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 284 anagrams from letters in trachyte (acehrtty).

Definitions for trachyte

noun

  1. a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting essentially of alkali feldspar and one or more subordinate minerals, as hornblende or mica: the extrusive equivalent of syenite.

Origin of trachyte

1815-25; French Greek trāchýtēs roughness, equivalent to trāchý(s) rough + -tēs noun suffix

Examples for trachyte

Some of these are composed of trachyte, others of compact blue basalt with olivine.

The cone itself is evidently composed of similar beds super-imposed, and holding fragments of porphyry and trachyte.

Walls of grey slate and trachyte, and the yellow stuff is good and plenty.

The last is in a sienitic rock on the limits of the trachyte.

Not a single specimen of its trachyte has ever been deposited in a European museum.

The prevalence of trachyte shows that the products have cooled under feeble pressure.

The mines here are found both in the granite and also in the trachyte.

Pumice and trachyte are the most common rocks around this mountain, and these are augitic or porphyroid.

The trachyte which once formed the summit of this mountain is now spread in fragments over the plain of Riobamba.

The last of the trachyte peaks are at the head of Mosquito pass.

Word Value for trachyte
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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