Clays is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLAYS in dictionary:

VERB:
• CLAY, to purify (e.g. sugar) with clay
NOUN:
• a stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics
• sediment with particles smaller than silt, typically less than 0.002 mm.
• a hardened clay surface for a tennis court
• the substance of the human body
• a European moth with yellowish-brown wings.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to treat with clay (a fine-grained, earthy material)

Words related to CLAYS

clay9 clayed12 claying13

Words that contain CLAYS

ballclays16 claystone14 fireclays17 pipeclays18 brickclays23 claystones15 underclays16

How to use CLAYS in a sentence

• For I had loved my father, despite the wild behavior which marred his later clays.
• Wet cold years, unfavourable to the insects, are also equally so to the farmer upon thin clays, which border the moors, where bees are mostly kept.
• To it was due the really remarkable polish of the perfect clays so regularly cushioned in his palm.
• Red, brown, yellow, and white paints were made by burning clays of these colors, which were then pulverized and mixed with a little grease.
• Coarse sand, unlike clay-substance, is practically unaffected during the drying and firing, and is a desirable if not a necessary ingredient of all brick clays.
• If necessary, coarse sand is added to the clay in the wash-pan, and such addition is often advisable because the washed clays are generally very fine in grain.
• On loam soils, a covering of 1 inch or less would be ample, and on stiff clays the covering may even be lighter under normal conditions.
• It would seem to be correct to assign third place to stiff clays, whether of the white or red cast.
• The latter include firm, stiff clays in rainy climates.
• In preparing other soils, as the clays of the South, it may be necessary first to plow and subsoil, and subsequently to use sufficiently the harrow and roller.
• Enormous crops of hay or pasture can be grown on such soils, but the crops of seed are not usually so large as on the moist clays referred to above.
• On stiff clays the growth is too slow to produce crops highly satisfactory either North or South, and in dry weather it is also difficult to obtain a stand of the plants.
• The Indians prepare their paints from these colored clays.
• In the main avenues, on either side of the rail-track of the cars, the mud was a trifle deeper than that of a cross-lane, in winter, in the Warwickshire clays.
• But because they did not know what clays to use, or how to glaze their products, all their experiments failed.
• In 1753 the Germans, because of the cheapness of Italian labor, tried making porcelain there, thinking that they could furnish their own clays at slight cost.
• The better types of white earthenware are made from carefully selected and well mixed clays, and more nearly approach porcelain, of which they are imitations.
• The northern portion is an extremely prolific farming region, made up of undulating lands with deep rich soil, composed of clays and volcanic ash.
• The soil of the foothills and valleys Is composed chiefly of shot clays and alluvial deposits, making good farming, stock-raising and fruit-growing lands.

Similar words containing CLAY without suffix s

clay9 clayed12 clayey14 clayier12 claying13 clayish15 claypan14 ballclay15 claybank19 clayiest13 claylike17 claymore15 claypans15 clayware16 fireclay16 pipeclay17 ballclays16 brickclay22 claybanks20 claymores16 claystone14 claytonia14 claywares17 fireclays17 pipeclays18 underclay15 brickclays23 claymation17 claystones15 claytonias15 pipeclayed20 underclays16 claymations18 pipeclaying21

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