Crossword-Solution: NITER 5 letters, 62 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; Ð called also blue light.

How I used to long for the nice bran mash with niter in it that Jerry used to give us on Saturday nights in hot weather, that used to cool us down and make us so comfortable.

Powder was provided by the Niter and Mining Bureau; lead for Confederate bullets was collected from many sources--even from the window-weights of the houses; iron was brought from the mines of Alabama; guns came from newly built factories; and machines and tools were part of the precious freight of the blockade-runners.

Two sets of sastrugi were found crossing one another, and, in the absence of the sun, we could not be sure of the course, so the camp was pitched niter five miles.

When they had finished their meal, glass was found to have been made from the niter and sea-sand by the heat of their fire.