Crossword-Solution: GRAPHITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Graphite | n. | Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GRAPHITE | anagram | EARTHPIG |
We have 27 clues for the answer “GRAPHITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Charcoal alternative, in a drawing class | 1 answer |
| used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | 1 answer |
| soft black form of carbon, used in pencil leads | 1 answer |
| The lead in pencils, actually | 1 answer |
| Stuff in pencils | 1 answer |
| Pencil 'lead' | 1 answer |
| POLISH ironwork | 1 answer |
| Material used for golf club shafts | 1 answer |
| LAYER lattice | 1 answer |
| IRONWORK polish | 1 answer |
| Golf club shaft material | 1 answer |
| DRY lubricant | 1 answer |
| BREECH-locks on rifles, lubricant for | 1 answer |
| Black lead | 2 answers |
| LEAD, black | 2 answers |
| Pencil filler | 2 answers |
| BEARING lubricant | 3 answers |
| REFRACTORY substance | 3 answers |
| mineral black | 3 answers |
| CARBON product | 4 answers |
| BLACKLEAD | 7 answers |
| black mineral | 15 answers |
| CARBON ___ | 22 answers |
| Mineral ___ | 41 answers |
| lubricant | 42 answers |
| Lead | 75 answers |
| Leadership | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRAPHITE (5)
Output of the extractive industries includes coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals.
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This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the luminous arc was developed—an important point of economy for Captain Nemo, who could not easily have replaced them; and under these conditions their waste was imperceptible.
This startling discovery was afterwards verified by Professors Friedel and Moissan, who found that the Canyon Diablo Meteorite contained the three varieties of carbon--diamond (transparent and black), graphite and amorphous carbon.
After a great amount of work and experimentation he decided upon a certain form of graphite, which seemed to be suitable for the purpose, and then proceeded to the commercial manufacture of the battery at a special factory in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, installed for the purpose.
Quotes with GRAPHITE (3)
... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.
One time Bonaventure heard the graphite of a pencil rasp across a piece of paper and leave a slight and quivered mark behind. He listened so hard he heard the graphite's history, when it was still a part of metamorphic rock that didn't know it would one day almost capture what was almost a thought from the mind of an insane man.
Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the graphite.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1980–2025).