Abelite :: Abelite (n.) Alt. of Abelonia.

Aciculite :: Aciculite (n.) Needle ore.

Actinolite :: Actinolite (n.) A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Aerolite :: Aerolite (n.) A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone..

Agalmatolite :: Agalmatolite (n.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite..

Alliteral :: Alliteral (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration..

Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. t.) To employ or place so as to make alliteration.

Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. i.) To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration..

Alliteration :: Alliteration (n.) The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -.

Alliterative :: Alliterative (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry..

Alliterator :: Alliterator (n.) One who alliterates.

Ampelite :: Ampelite (n.) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist..

Antholite :: Antholite (n.) A fossil plant, like a petrified flower..

Anthophyllite :: Anthophyllite (n.) A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color..

Anthropolite :: Anthropolite (n.) A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it..

Apophyllite :: Apophyllite (n.) A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium..

Arenicolite :: Arenicolite (n.) An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks..

Argillite :: Argillite (n.) Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc..

Asterophyllite :: Asterophyllite (n.) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites..

Baalite :: Baalite (n.) A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

Baculite :: Baculite (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite..

Biliteral :: Biliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb..

Biliteral :: Biliteral (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters..

Biliteralism :: Biliteralism (n.) The property or state of being biliteral.

Blite :: Blite (n.) A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

Botryolite :: Botryolite (n.) A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure..

Brontolite :: Brontolite (n.) Alt. of Brontolit.

Byssolite :: Byssolite (n.) An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

Campbellite :: Campbellite (n.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3..

Carmelite :: Carmelite (a.) Alt. of Carmeli.

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