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axinite in British English
(ˈæksɪˌnaɪt)
noun
a precious mineral, found in a range of colours, which forms glassy crystals
axinite in American English
(ˈæksəˌnait)
noun
a mineral, complex calcium and aluminum borosilicate, usually occurring in thin brown crystals
Word origin
[1795–1805; ‹ Gk axi᷇n(ē) ax + -ite1]This word is first recorded in the period 1795–1805. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: baseball, crunch, hopscotch, sensitivity, sharpshooter-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)Image ofaxinite
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Word lists withaxinite
mineral- in-a-the-minority
- in a tight corner
- in-a-tight-corner
- in a tight corner/in a tight spot
- in-a-tight-corner-in-a-tight-spot
- in a tight spot
- in a trice
- in attendance
- inattention
- inattentive
- inattentively
- inattentiveness
- in at the death
- in-at-the-deep-end
- in at the deep end to throw someone in at the deep end jump in at the deep end
- in at the finish
- in at the kill
- inaudibility
- inaudible
- inaudibleness
- inaudibly
- inaugural
- inaugural address
- inaugural flight
- inaugural speech