Gneiss is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GNEISS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a foliated usually coarse-grained metamorphic rock typically consisting of feldspar, quartz, and mica
• a metamorphic rock with a banded or foliated structure, typically coarse-grained and consisting mainly of feldspar, quartz, and mica.
• A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.
• a laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite
• coarse-grained metamorphic rock
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of rock

Words related to GNEISS

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Words that contain GNEISS

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How to use GNEISS in a sentence

• At the camp gneiss, porphyry, and trap have superseded the slates, and proceeding east, granite is visible at the western base of the range.
• The geological formation at the site is sienitic gneiss.
• So narrow was the gorge at length that the road ran along a ledge that had been cut in the gneiss.
• A stream came tumbling down a deep ravine over blocks of gneiss to join the Lot, and a little beyond this was a hamlet.
• It occurs in alluvial soil, in the vicinity of rocks belonging to the secondary or floetz-trap formation, and imbedded in gneiss.
• We passed many masses of ferruginous conglomerate, and I noticed that most of the gneiss dips westwards.
• The strike of large masses of foliated gneiss is parallel with the major axis of the Lake, and all are tilted on edge.
• The summit rock was gneiss, succeeded by sienitic gneiss.
• Knobs of gray gneiss, crowned by mournful cedars, intrenched upon the arable land, and the dark-blue gleam of water appeared through the trees.
• Ce filon finit a la reunion de la pierre calcaire au gneiss.
• The stones are of hewn gneiss granite, or sandstone, to be met with in many places in these hills.
• It is composed of granite resting on an elevated plateau of soft friable gneiss.
• The three principal elevations in Princeton are mainly composed of gneiss.
• The gneiss of this region is not especially rich in other mineral contents.
• The summit of the Jungfrau, for example, consists of gneiss granite, but two masses of Jura limestone have been thrust into it, and their ends folded over.

Similar words containing GNEIS without suffix s

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