Stalactite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STALACTITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a roughly conical or icicle-shaped speleothem that hangs down from the roof of a cave
• a tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water.
• A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.
• In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava.
• a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a deposit of calcium carbonate (as calcite) resembling an icicle hanging from the roof or sides of a cave

Words related to STALACTITE

stalactiform19 stalactites13 stalactitic15

Words that contain STALACTITE

stalactited14 stalactites13

How to use STALACTITE in a sentence

• The Grotte de Robinet must have been dazzlingly beautiful at one time, but now most of the stalagmite and stalactite has been completely blackened by smoke.
• But no brilliant fragment of stalactite appeared as a reward for her search, and she turned away with a feeling of disappointment, and heaviness at her heart.
• Why this crumbling stalactite is called the Pine Apple Bush, I cannot divine.
• They were all tapestried, as it were, with a kind of stalactite, which covered the funnel to the top, with its knobs and chintz-like variation of colors.
• When the wood had decayed, lime was washed into the cylindrical cavities, and became hard, sometimes even like that in a stalactite.
• He then sets about combining metals with sulphur in the moist way, as if that were any more to his purpose than is the making of a stalactite for the explanation of marble.
• Drops of water falling from a roof, and forming stalactite, produce first tubular bodies, and then gradually consolidate and increase those pendulous bodies by incrustation.
• Therefore, it is plainly impossible that they could have been formed upon this principle of calcareous stalactite.
• The places where these false appearances of stalactite are found, are precisely those in which, from the nature of things, all possibility for such an operation is excluded.
• They brought me to a dark sort of room, with damp earth for its floor, upon which water slowly dropped from some unseen stalactite.

Similar words containing STALACT without suffix ite

stalactic13 stalactical15 stalactital13 stalactited14 stalactites13 stalactitic15 stalactiform19 stalactitical17 stalactitious15 stalactitiform21 stalactitically22

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