Lyddite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LYDDITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a high explosive for shells, largely picric acid
• a high explosive containing picric acid, used chiefly by the British during the First World War.
• explosive consisting chiefly of fused picric acid
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an explosive

Words related to LYDDITE

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Words that contain LYDDITE

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How to use LYDDITE in a sentence

• The precise time-table methods of the present period did not exist then, but the main idea of giving the Opposition as much heavy lyddite, followed by shrapnel, was the same.
• Karl got rid of a fourteen-pound sigh, which sounded like the bursting of a lyddite shell.
• The shelling of heights with Lyddite and shrapnel went on hour after hour, and towards evening some thought they heard a faint sound as of rifle volleys.
• Its red glare is followed by flame that does not come from lyddite.
• They have had cast at them the shafts of British vituperation and the lyddite of American venom.
• In a few instances the lyddite was far more harrowing than the shafts, and in the vast majority of instances both were born of ignorance.
• There is hardly any food, the remaining bags of biscuits are yellow from the lyddite fumes, so is everything, damp and yellow.
• Here, just before sunset, the gallant Captain Rautenbagh was blown to pieces by a lyddite shell, which exploded in front of him.
• For at the base of the mountain are natural forts and grottoes, against which lyddite shells would spend their force in vain.
• Lyddite, mentioned occasionally as one of the modern death-dealing explosives, has for a base picric acid.
• The Lyddite shells referred to occasionally in various articles about the war are shells in which Lyddite is used as the explosive.
• The explosion blackened our faces with lyddite and half-blinded us.
• One of these was a solid, and burst on impact with an explosive force equal to about twenty pounds of lyddite.
• Another film! A big British lyddite shell went crashing into the German parapet.
• Almost simultaneously the lyddite shell passes overhead with a scream.
• Yet when it is exploded by the proper method, lyddite, dynamite, and all the other ites, are as a gentle zephyr in comparison.
• The gun uses shrapnel as well, but relies for its main effects on lyddite.
• Some correspondents have described with evident glee how Boer prayer-meetings have been broken up by Lyddite shells.
• From this point the flashes of the guns above Modder River were visible, and the dull boom of Lyddite was borne to our ears.

Similar words containing LYDD without suffix ite

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