pyrolite
/ˈpʌɪrəlʌɪt/noun
A material which (according to some models) is regarded as typical of the earth's upper mantle, corresponding in composition to a mixture of basalt and dunite (peridotite), or to the minerals pyroxene and olivine.
Origin
1960s. From pyr- + ol- + -ite.
- sphygmograph
- sphygmomanometer
- sphygmomanometric
- sphygmomanometry
- Sphynx
- spic
- burry
- bursa
- bursal
- bursa of Fabricius
- bursar
- bursarial
- bursarship
- bursary
- burse
- bursitis
- burst
- burster
- bursting (or bulging) at the seams
- burst into flame (or flames)
- burstone
- burst someone's bubble
- bursty
- Burt, Cyril
- burthen