Encaustic is valid Scrabble Word

Is encaustic a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for ENCAUSTIC in dictionary:

NOUN:

an ancient method of painting in melted wax; a piece of pottery or other article decorated in this way
the art or process of encaustic painting.
a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application
process of burning in colours

ADJECTIVE:

having the colours burned in
(in painting and ceramics) decorated by burning in colours as an inlay, especially using coloured clays or pigments mixed with hot wax.
decorated by any process involving burning in colours, esp by inlaying coloured clays and baking or by fusing wax colours to the surface
Prepared by means of heat; burned in.
The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a paint made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and resin and after application fixed by heat; the method involving the use of encaustic or a work produced by this method

Words related to ENCAUSTIC

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Words that contain ENCAUSTIC

encaustics14 encaustically20

How to use ENCAUSTIC in a sentence

This latter mode was called encaustic, and was, according to Plutarch, the most durable of all methods.
Encaustic painting was practised both with the cestrum and the pencil, and the colors were also burned in.
Before that time the whole place was used as a farm, and floors of encaustic tiles were buried deep in farm-yard rubbish.
He is said to have wished to reproduce the encaustic process of the ancients, and lighted fires to harden the surface of the fresco.
Here the encaustic decoration, so plentifully employed in the other rooms, is dropped, and an effect even more brilliant obtained by the united use of marble and gold.
But notwithstanding all the encaustic tiles in the world, damp will gather in a hollow like this, and the damp alone was an objection.
First, having lit another lantern which was kept there, he removed with the sharp end of the pickaxe a large patch of the encaustic tiles exactly in the centre of the depression.
In the chapter-house at Bayeux is a labyrinth formed of tiles, red, black, and encaustic, with a pattern of brown and yellow.
This hall is paved, and the walls and ceiling are inlaid with beautiful designs in encaustic tiles.
These chambers, eight in number, are painted in encaustic, with subjects from the Greek poets, of which Schwanthaler supplied the designs.

Here the encaustic decoration so plentifully employed in the other rooms is dropt, and an effect even more brilliant obtained by the united use of marble and gold.

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