Crossword-Solution: STALACTITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stalactite | n. | A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks. |
| Stalactite | n. | In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “STALACTITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hanging "icicle" in a cave | 1 answer |
| Mineral deposit hanging from a cave ceiling | 1 answer |
| Underground hanger | 1 answer |
| Spelunking sight | 1 answer |
| ROOF formation of cave | 1 answer |
| It may hang from a cave roof | 1 answer |
| It may eventually form a column | 1 answer |
| Iciclelike accumulation of mineral deposits | 1 answer |
| Hanging, of a sort | 1 answer |
| Cave sight. | 1 answer |
| Cave 'icicle' | 1 answer |
| CAVE stone formation | 2 answers |
| CAVE formation | 2 answers |
| Point at the ceiling? [misbehave] | 2 answers |
| Cavern phenomenon | 2 answers |
| Drip source | 4 answers |
| Overhead projection? | 4 answers |
| A CYLINDER OF CALCIUM CARBONATE HANGING FROM THE ROOF OF A LIMESTONE CAVE | 10 answers |
| Pendant | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZMCAEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STALACTITE (5)
The glasses and cups still stood upon the table, a water-jug being overturned, from which a small rill, after tracing its course with marvellous precision down the centre of the long table, fell into the neck of the unconscious Mark Clark, in a steady, monotonous drip, like the dripping of a stalactite in a cave.
Next minute "the unobstructed beam" was shining right into the knapsack itself, for all the world like one of those little demon electric lights with which the dentist makes a momentary treasure-cave of your distended jaws, flashing with startled stalactite.
LIFE Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams, Or carnival of careless joys that leap About your hearts like billows on the deep In flames of amber and of amethyst.
All we have to do is to say--not "Open Sesame," like Ali Baba in the tale of the Forty Thieves--but some word or two which Madam Why will teach us, and forthwith a hill will open, and we shall walk in, and behold rivers and cascades underground, stalactite pillars and stalagmite statues, and all the wonders of the grottoes of Adelsberg, Antiparos, or Kentucky.
The water melts more lime than it can carry, and drops some of it again, making fresh limestone grain by grain as it drips from the roof above; and fresh limestone again where it splashes on the floor below: till if it dripped long enough, the stalactite hanging from above would meet the stalagmite rising from below, and join in one straight round white graceful shaft, which would seem (but only seem) to support the roof of the cave.
Quotes with STALACTITE (3)
I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?""Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.
True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed. And so we endure. We have faith th…
The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1969–2021).