Igneous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IGNEOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• of rock, formed by cooling and consolidation of magma
• (of rock) having solidified from lava or magma.
• relating to or involving volcanic or plutonic processes
• of fire; fiery.
• (of rock) formed as molten rock cools
• Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.
• Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks.
• produced under conditions involving intense heat
• produced by the action of fire or intense heat
• like or suggestive of fire
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• pertaining to fire

Words that contain IGNEOUS

ligneous9 pyroligneous18

How to use IGNEOUS in a sentence

• They are composed of a kind of igneous rock not found anywhere near Wiltshire.
• The whole region is as certainly of igneous origin, and was the centre of as violent fiery action, as the vicinity of Naples.
• We estimate by chemical examination of igneous and sedimentary rocks the amount of sodium which has been supplied to the ocean per ton of sediment produced by denudation.
• The rock in general, more especially the primary igneous rock, is not stable in presence of the atmosphere and of water.
• This, however, in no way relieves us of the necessity of tracing to the ocean the substances dissolved from the igneous rocks.
• For this purpose we first compare the average chemical composition of the sedimentary and the igneous rocks.
• We had reached the village of Hassane, opposite to a conical hill named Chisulwe, which is on the south side of the river, and evidently of igneous origin.
• That the oldest known sedimentary rocks have been greatly changed by igneous action, and that still older ones have been totally transformed by it, is becoming undeniable.
• When we pass from the agency which geologists term igneous, to aqueous and atmospheric agencies, we see the like ever growing complications of effects.
• When the exposed land consists of several unlike formations, sedimentary and igneous, the denudation produces changes proportionably more heterogeneous.
• In support of this igneous origin of the earth, Mairan and Buffon cited already the high temperature of deep mines, and, among others, those of the mines of Giromagny.
• Agriculture by the hand, then, and absolute refusal or banishment of unnecessary igneous force, are the first conditions of a school of art in any country.
• Like an igneous phantom, a witch flame, it rose, higher, higher, higher, to what I adjudged to be some twelve feet or more from the ground.
• The igneous and other disturbing agencies are then considered, and general remarks added upon the geography, the character of the surface, and various phenomena of the period.
• The heat-shimmer of that baked land of bare-ribbed rock and naked, igneous hills had already begun to blur its outlines.
• Near Downhead there is an isolated outburst of igneous rock.
• On the other side a black and dreadful cloud, bursting with an igneous serpentine vapor, darted out a long train of fire, resembling flashes of lightning, but much larger.
• A mud-volcano named Korabetoff, in the Crimea, presents phenomena more akin to those of the igneous volcanoes of South America.
• There are submarine mud volcanoes as well as those of igneous kind.

Similar words containing IGNEOU without suffix s

ligneous9 pyroligneous18

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