Gunpowder is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GUNPOWDER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an explosive mixture of saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal
• an explosive consisting of a powdered mixture of saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal, now chiefly used for quarry blasting and in fuses and fireworks.
• a fine green China tea of granular appearance.
• explosive mixture of potassium nitrate, sulphur, and charcoal
• A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
• a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an explosive mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur used in gunnery and blasting; broadly; any of various powders used in guns as propelling charges

Words related to GUNPOWDER

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Words that contain GUNPOWDER

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How to use GUNPOWDER in a sentence

• The same reasons induce me to recommend the erection of a manufactory of gunpowder, to be under the direction of the Ordnance Office.
• They were simply picking down the rock, in doing which they were assisted by gunpowder.
• He held an empty pistol in his right hand, but he passed his left palm over his hot face, and wiped away the mingled reek of perspiration and burned gunpowder.
• On several occasions, having all the ingredients at my disposal, I attempted to make gunpowder, but truth to tell, my experiments were not attended with very great success.
• Gunpowder was in great request among them and we were given to understand that we might obtain everything we required, excepting water, for money or for gunpowder.
• Two things which tended to break down the feudal system and bring more power to the common people were, first, the invention of gunpowder, and, second, the rise of towns.
• The gunpowder had loosened a large mass in one of the inferior strata, and our first employment, on resuming our labours, was to raise it from its bed.
• Why not cast him in Achillean brass, the rival of the great hero of gunpowder and Waterloo, and make him breathe gas like the Dragon of Wantley, to illuminate the triumphal arch.
• The wall on the western flank was of similar construction, but had been considerably damaged at the northern end, evidently by an explosion of gunpowder.
• The invention of gun-powder nearly at the same time changed the art of war, not only in its manner, but in its effect, a point of far greater importance.
• When one considers these circumstances, that furious bigotry of the Catholics which broke out in the gunpowder conspiracy, appears the less surprising.
• It was supposed to be filled with gunpowder, the explosion of which would have blown the poor minister to atoms.
• The civic companies were ordered to set watches as on similar critical occasions, and no gunpowder, weapons or other munitions of war were allowed to be sent out of the city.
• Two barrels of gunpowder, by my conscience! What a devil will it signify talking, if thus you are to blow one another up at every word? Lovel.
• Her cargo was an assorted one, consisting in part of barrels of rum, and gunpowder, muskets, cloth, and numerous articles, with which to purchase slaves.
• By these means an admirable discipline was maintained on board the ships, and the peasantry on shore never let the pirates want for gunpowder, provisions, or any other necessary.
• No doubt the Jannati Shahr men, baffled, had sent for much gunpowder to blow in the massive planking.
• Fumes from swamps seemed to mingle with the smoke and odors of burned gunpowder.
• It was the spark to the gun-powder of their passions.
• Nor was that half-brother of Daniel, who had the black hair and eyes and gunpowder skin, at all like Daniel, or equal to him in mental power.
• He had taken the muskets and gunpowder of the Company, and was now only too pleased to refuse them the price they thought to receive.
• The seed, which is at first sight not unlike coarse gunpowder, is sown three or four inches deep, in straight lines, twelve or fifteen inches apart.
• Gunpowder may be exploded by heat sent through ice.
• Indeed, the most effective modes of treatment yet discovered for a burning building are drowning it with all its contents in a deluge of water or blowing it up with gunpowder.
• Well, early in the fall of 1774, we heard the news that Gage had fortified Charlestown Neck, and sent some troops to seize the gunpowder at Cambridge.
• The standard muzzle velocity of Schultze gunpowder is 1,220 feet per second.
• But the application of gunpowder to the art of war made it necessary that men should be especially trained for the military profession.

Similar words containing GUNPOWD without suffix er

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