crystallise

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
18
Letters
11

Definition of crystallise

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (UK, alt-of, nonstandard)Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of crystallize.
    “formed from durene and durylic acid by prolonged boiling with dilute nitric acid, crystallises in long transparent prisms, and sublimes at a high temperature.”
    “As the time for the excursion drew near, details crystallised.”
    “Opinion within his organisation had been changing and crystallising rapidly and the situation had altered within the past few months.”
    “By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano.”
    “The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From crystal + -ise.

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3 words

8-letter words

30 words

7-letter words

109 words

6-letter words

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