Grates is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRATES in dictionary:

VERB:
• GRATE, to reduce to shreds by rubbing
• reduce (food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater
• make an unpleasant rasping sound
• have an irritating effect
NOUN:
• the recess of a fireplace or furnace
• a metal frame for holding fuel in a fireplace or furnace.
• a grating.

Words related to GRATES

grate6 grated8 grating9

Words that contain GRATES

aggrates10 ingrates9 migrates11 regrates9 emigrates12 denigrates12 immigrates15 integrates11 remigrates13 deflagrates16 conflagrates18 reintegrates13 disintegrates15 redintegrates15 transmigrates16 photodisintegrates25

How to use GRATES in a sentence

• In each of these it largely enters into the domestic economy, and stoves, grates, and the general implements of cookery, are usually composed of it.
• Sometimes it is very difficult to get a proper polish to black grates, particularly if they have been neglected, and allowed to rust at all.
• Bright grates require unceasing attention to keep them in perfect order.
• The same rules should be observed in cleaning the drawing-room grates as we have just stated, putting down the cloth, before commencing, to prevent the carpet from getting soiled.
• By this simple means, all the grates and fire-irons in an empty house may be kept for months free from harm, without further care or attention.
• In the nave of the small church sat in comfortable arm-chairs two monks, one black, one white, leaning their ears to gilded grates and receiving the confessions of the sisterhood.
• WHY GRATES BURN OUT Grates burn through carelessness.
• It grates against every inclination of yours like a file on steel.
• A handsome little fellow at one of the grates, was dressing his hair unconsciously with most agitated fingers, evidently affected by the scene.
• Grates with folding doors are made here as well as at Chesterfield.
• The doors are in half heights, so as to serve two purposes, and grates so supplied sell for about two guineas extra.
• In the house it was chilly, so Cora had caused fires to be built in all the grates.
• These galleries were separated in the middle by iron grates.
• In sugar houses you will see this frequently illustrated, and will find 16 inch fires upon their grates.
• What grates upon me more is the way in which he speaks of himself.
• Nothing in his verse offends the eye or grates unpleasantly on the ear.
• True, the mechanism often works with difficulty, drags heavily, grates and screams with harsh collision.
• Then he took a long breath, for the sight of prison doors and locks and bars and grates and gates and guards oppressed even his peaceful soul.
• Croix, Charlton was trying all the while to remember that walls and grates and bars and bolts and locks and iron gates and armed guards shut him in no longer.
• Open grates were used for cooking just as open fireplaces were used in the south.
• They lighted their streets and buildings with coal-gas, and burnt coal in their grates.
• As the keel grates on the pebbles, the men jump into the water from the high stern and catch the drifting wood.
• It is placed between two grates, which allow the vultures to tear off the flesh, but not to carry off the limbs.
• It is the same that we see aflame in our lamps and grates.
• I never cou’d find my self shocked with the Harshness of those Languages, which grates so much in the Ears of those that never heard them.

Similar words containing GRATE without suffix s

grate6 grated8 grater7 aggrate9 graters8 ingrate8 migrate10 regrate8 aggrated11 aggrates10 emigrate11 grateful12 ingrates9 migrated12 migrates11 regrated10 regrater9 regrates9 denigrate11 emigrated13 emigrates12 grateless10 immigrate14 ingrately13 integrate10 regraters10 remigrate12 deflagrate15 denigrated13 denigrates12 gratefully17 immigrated16 immigrates15 ingrateful14 integrated12 integrates11 remigrated14 remigrates13 ungrateful14 conflagrate17 deflagrated17 deflagrates16 gratefuller15 reintegrate12 conflagrated19 conflagrates18 disintegrate14 gratefullest16 gratefulness16 redintegrate14 reintegrated14 reintegrates13 transmigrate15 ungratefully19 unintegrated14 disintegrated16 disintegrates15 nonintegrated15 redintegrated16 redintegrates15 transmigrated17 transmigrates16 gratefulnesses18 ungratefulness18 untransmigrated19 ungratefulnesse19 ungratefulnesses20 photodisintegrate24 photodisintegrates25 photodisintegrated26

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