Definitions for trachytes

trachytes tra·chyte

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

Trachytes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 572 anagrams from letters in trachytes (acehrstty).

Definitions for trachytes

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 trachytes

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

Examples for trachytes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for trachytes
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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