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Showing words for SCHIST using the English dictionary
6 Letter Words for Schist
schist, stichs
5 Letter Words for Schist
chits, cists, hists, shist, shits, sicht, sitch, stchi, stich
4 Letter Words for Schist
chis, chit, cist, cits, hics, hiss, hist, hits, ichs, isth, itch, scsi, shit, sich, sics, sish, sist, sith, sits, this, tich, tics, tshi
3 Letter Words for Schist
chi, chs, cis, cit, csi, cst, cts, hic, his, hit, hts, ich, ihs, ish, ist, its, sch, sci, sct, shi, sht, sic, sis, sit, ssh, tch, tic, tis, tsh, tsi, tss
Definitions for Schist
[1] any of a class of crystalline metamorphic rocks whose constituent mineral grains have a more or less parallel or foliated arrangement.
[2] any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers because its micaceous minerals have become aligned in thin parallel bands
Words nearby Schist
schirra, schism, schismatic, schismatist, schismatize, schist, schisto-, schistocelia, schistocormia, schistocyte, schistocytosis
Origin of Schist
1775–85; < New Latin schistus, Latin (lapis ) schistos < Greek schistós divided, curdled, divisible, derivative of schízein to split, with -tos adj. suffix
Other words from Schist
schistose adjective (shĭs′ tōs′ )
Word origin for Schist
C18: from French schiste, from Latin lapis schistos stone that may be split, from Greek skhizein to split