lixiviate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 9
Definition of lixiviate
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
“[…]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.”
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verb
-
To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
“[…]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.”
adj
- Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
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Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
“but we cou'd not, by this way, discern the least acidity in our arsenical solution, but rather a manifest sign of an urinous or lixiviate quality”
noun
- leachate
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).
Words you can make from lixiviate
95 playable · top: LIXIVIA (17 pts)
Best play lixivia 17 points5-letter words
12 words4-letter words
34 words- VEXT 14 pts
- AXEL 11 pts
- AXIL 11 pts
- AXLE 11 pts
- EXIT 11 pts
- ILEX 11 pts
- IXIA 11 pts
- TAXI 11 pts
- EVIL 7 pts
- LAVE 7 pts
- LEVA 7 pts
- LIVE 7 pts
- VAIL 7 pts
- VALE 7 pts
- VEAL 7 pts
- VEIL 7 pts
- VELA 7 pts
- VIAL 7 pts
- VILE 7 pts
- VITA 7 pts
- VLEI 7 pts
- ALIT 4 pts
- ILEA 4 pts
- ILIA 4 pts
- LATE 4 pts
- LATI 4 pts
- LITE 4 pts
- TAEL 4 pts
- TAIL 4 pts
- TALE 4 pts
- TALI 4 pts
- TEAL 4 pts
- TELA 4 pts
- TILE 4 pts
3-letter words
33 words- VAX 13 pts
- VEX 13 pts
- AXE 10 pts
- LAX 10 pts
- LEX 10 pts
- TAX 10 pts
- TIX 10 pts
- AVE 6 pts
- LAV 6 pts
- LEV 6 pts
- TAV 6 pts
- VAT 6 pts
- VET 6 pts
- VIA 6 pts
- VIE 6 pts
- AIL 3 pts
- AIT 3 pts
- ALE 3 pts
- ALT 3 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- LAT 3 pts
- LEA 3 pts
- LEI 3 pts
- LET 3 pts
- LIE 3 pts
- LIT 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TEL 3 pts
- TIE 3 pts
- TIL 3 pts
2-letter words
15 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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