pencil lead
noun
Graphite (formerly blacklead) as used for making pencils; = lead; a slender rod of this used in a wooden pencil or a propelling pencil.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- readable
- readableness
- readably
- readapt
- readaptation
- readaptive
- read-around ratio
- readathon
- read-a-thon
- read-athon
- read between the lines
- readdress
- readeption
- reader
- reader-aloud
- reader-alouder
- reader-friendly
- readerly
- reader-printer
- reader-response
- readership
- reader-writer
- readhere
- readhesion
- native companion