Crossword-Solution: ASBESTOS 8 letters, 56 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Asbestos n. A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long
and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white,
gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety
of serpentine.

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Old building substance 1 answer
GREY fibrous mineral 1 answer
Hazard in some old homes 1 answer
Hazardous fireproofing material 1 answer
Hazardous insulation material 1 answer
INCOMBUSTIBLE fabric 1 answer
Insulation material on Time's list of the 50 worst inventions 1 answer
Litigation-prompting insulation 1 answer
Litigation-prompting mineral 1 answer
Material for a certain curtain. 1 answer
Material for which ordinary seaman wins award? 1 answer
Mineral involved in much litigation 1 answer
Hazardous construction material 1 answer
Old construction danger 1 answer
Old fireproofing material 1 answer
Old furnace tape material 1 answer
Once-common building material 1 answer
WHITE fibrous mineral 1 answer
Widely banned building material 1 answer
Word on a theater curtain 1 answer
Workplace watchdog's concern 1 answer
silicate of magnesium and calcium 1 answer
used for making fireproof articles 1 answer
Heat-resistant fibrous fabric 1 answer
Frowned-upon construction material 1 answer
Frowned-on fire-resistant material 1 answer
Former fireproofing 1 answer
Construction material no-no 1 answer
Fireproofing material 1 answer
Fireproofing construction mineral banned in many countries 1 answer
Danger in old homes 1 answer
Fireproof stuff. 1 answer
Dangerous insulation 1 answer
FIREPROOF material 1 answer
Firemen's glove material 1 answer
Fire-resistant material 1 answer
Fiberglass predecessor 1 answer
Fabric once used for theater curtains 1 answer
Certain curtain material. 2 answers
AMIANT 2 answers
Theatre curtain. 2 answers
Heat-resistant mineral 2 answers
Heat-resistant material 2 answers
incombustibility 2 answers
Protective material 3 answers
GASKET, type of 4 answers
INSULATING substance 4 answers
insulator 5 answers
Insulation material 8 answers
BUILDING MATERIAL USED IN CONSTRUCTING ROOFS 10 answers
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Sentences with ASBESTOS (5)

Mining has declined in importance in recent years; high-grade iron ore deposits were depleted in 1978, and health concerns cut world demand for asbestos.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Important cases of this include {asbestos longjohns} and {asbestos cork award}, but it is used more generally.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
What I cannot help wishing is, that Adam and EVE had been postponed, and Martin Luther and Joan of Arc put in their place—that splendid pair equipped with temperaments not made of butter, but of asbestos.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The incombustible pieces of dress which he uses for the body, arms, and legs, are formed out of strong cloth, which has been steeped in a solution of alum, while those for the head, hands, and feet, are made of cloth of asbestos or amianthus.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1996
Mining has declined in importance in recent years; high-grade iron ore deposits were depleted by 1978, and health concerns cut world demand for asbestos.
The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States Central Intelligence Agency 1996

Quotes with ASBESTOS (3)

My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the waist of an hourglass With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes With the tongue of an unbelievable stone My w…
Andre Breton Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
Scott Douglas Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.
Elbert Hubbard
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 45 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).