Dross is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DROSS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• waste matter
• something regarded as worthless; rubbish
• foreign matter, dregs, or mineral waste, in particular scum formed on the surface of molten metal
• scum formed on the surfaces of molten metals
• The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
• Rust of metals.
• Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
• worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
• the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals

Words related to DROSS

drosses8 drossier9 drossiest10 drossiness11 drossy10

Words that contain DROSS

drossy10 drosses8 drossier9 undrossy12 drossiest10 drossiness11 undrossier11 undrossiest12 drossinesses13

How to use DROSS in a sentence

• And, though he counted gold as dross, yet was he not dissatisfied that Timandra had saved the gold he had given her formerly against a rainy day.
• Had the dross not been with you, Miss Queen of Oz, I should not have even acknowledged them.
• Hence, when a slow disease burns the dross and earth out of one, how keen and susceptible his organization becomes! The mud-wall grows transparent.
• We lodged in a stifling court, Church Court, where every room was filled as if cubic inches were gold, as indeed they are to London house-owners, if human life is but dross.
• Once realizing the claim of birth and race, she does not falter, love is resolutely put aside, all delight in culture and refinement becomes dross in her eyes.
• Then they are truly purged in the fire of affliction, that whatever dross and trash is in their hearts may be burnt out, and the pure gold left.
• Pure piety without religious dross, And fortitude that shrinks at no disaster.
• The radiance of these energies may be obscured by worldly desires even as the light of the sun can be concealed beneath the dust and dross which cover the mirror.
• Neither the candle nor the lamp can be lighted through their own unaided efforts, nor can it ever be possible for the mirror to free itself from its dross.
• Unlike most of our learned old English authors, Saadi did not cast upon the world all that came from the rich mine of his genius, dross as well as fine gold, clay as well as gems.
• The air was now black with volcanic dross and a gloom as of midnight surrounded them on every side.
• The dross that had once hung about the ore drops away, and the infirmities, and even miseries, of genius are forgotten in its greatness.
• Thus vanished the Island of Gems, with its treasure of jewels and gold, the dross of the world, in the pursuit of which so many risk their lives.
• That when it begins to boil fast, you take away part of the fire, so as it may boil slowly, and the scum and dross go all to one side, the other remaining clear.
• Not only this, but they would stick to it that the current coin of the realm was dross in comparison with the Musical Bank coinage.
• He purged away all the dross, and removed all the defects.
• It is like the furnace to the metal, which takes away the dross and shews you a refined lump.
• In one place He says the mirror will never be free from dross, in the other place He says it will be “so cleared as to be able” etc.
• Therefore, we must endeavor night and day to purify the hearts from every dross, sanctify the souls from every restriction and become free from the discords of the human world.
• Not until man is tried doth the pure gold distinctly separate from the dross.
• O God! Sanctify me from all else save Thee, purge me from the dross of sins and transgressions, and cause me to possess a spiritual heart and conscience.
• When it is melted, run it through a coarse cloth or bag made for the purpose, and put it into a press to separate the wax from the dross.
• O God! Sanctify me from all else save Thee, purge me from the dross of sins and transgressions and cause me to possess a spiritual heart and conscience.
• The heat is intense, but the intensity guarantees the destruction of the dross which has gathered about the truth.
• Perhaps soon a greater head may appear, and instead of these single grains, give the whole in a casting of pure metal without dross.
• Savages and criminals are men who have not tried to boil this dross out of their nature.
• From the solitary red-ochre street we wandered over the great heaps of burnt-out dross and fragments of stone, accumulated to whole ramparts and hills.
• When he or his accomplices offer you his dross it is but saying no, and you are safe.
• It was you who preferred the dross of gold, and the indulgence of your own luxury and that of the sybarite, your father, to the passionate affection I bore you.
• The highest of these hills had on its summit a regular volcanic crater, whence there have been thrown up great quantities of dross and lava, containing fragments of older rocks.
• Although quantities of volcanic dross have been from time to time thrown up to the surface in this region, no island has yet made its appearance above water.
• Amid the dross of human frailty, the pure metal shines with the lustre that surrounds the sinner in the morning of his conversion.
• There was dross mingled with the gold in this speech of January 3d.

Similar words containing DROS without suffix s

andros7 drosky14 drossy10 hydros13 pedros9 drosera8 droshky18 drosses8 drostdy12 droseras9 droskies13 drossier9 drostdys13 enhydros15 hidroses12 hidrosis12 hydroski19 hydrosol15 landdros10 undrossy12 windrose12 anidroses10 anidrosis10 droshkies17 drossiest10 drostdies11 hadrosaur13 hydrosere16 hydroskis20 hydrosols16 hydrosoma18 hydrosome18 hydrostat16 landdrost11 windroses13 anhidroses14 anhidrosis14 drosometer13 drosophila16 drossiness11 enhydroses17 hadrosaurs14 hydroscope21 hydroseres17 hydrosolic19 hydrosomal19 hydrosomes19 hydrospace21 hydrostats17 landdroses12 landdrosts12 osmidroses13 osmidrosis13 undrossier11 androsphinx24 bromidroses16 bromidrosis16 drosometers14 drosophilae17 drosophilas17 hadrosaurus15 hydroscopes22 hydroscopic24 hydrosomata20 hydrospaces22 hydrosphere23 hydrostatic20 undrossiest12 androsterone13 bromhidroses20 bromhidrosis20 chondrostian18 droseraceous15 drossinesses13 hydrospheres24 hydrospheric26 hydrostatics21 hyperidroses21 hyperidrosis21 polyhedroses21 polyhedrosis21 androsphinges20 androsphinxes26 androsterones14 chondrostians19 hadrosauruses17 hydroscopical26 hydrosomatous22 hydrostatical22 hydrosulphate25 hydrosulphide26 hydrosulphite25 hyperhidroses25 hyperhidrosis25 synchondroses22 synchondrosis22 hyperhydroses28 hyperhydrosis28 chondrosamine21 hydrosulphates26 hydrosulphides27 hydrosulphites26 hydrosulphuric28 chondrosamines22 chondroskeleton25 hydrostatically27 hydrosulphurous27 androstenedione17 hyperhydrosises30

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