Chalk

Theme list: chalk with definitions

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FRONT	WORD	BACK	DEFINITION
—	CALK	S	[v. -ED, -ING°, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 7] To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
—	CALX	—	[n. -ES or CALCES] · a mineral residue
—	CIST	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.
A	DOWN	SY	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 68] A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
—	KEEL	S	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 15] Red chalk; ruddle.
S	PICA	LS	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
—	CHALK	SY	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
—	CHALKS	—	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of chalk
—	CHALKY	—	[a. CHALKIER, CHALKIEST] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Consisting of or containing chalk.
—	CRAYON	S	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
—	SCROOP	S	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.
—	BECHALK	S	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
—	CALCITE	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble.
—	CALCIUM	S	[n. -S] · a metallic element
—	CHALKED	—	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Written in or covered by chalk.
—	WHITING	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
—	BECHALKS	—	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
—	CHALKIER	—	[a. CHALKIER, CHALKIEST] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Consisting of or containing chalk.
—	CHALKING	—	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Something chalked on a surface.
—	DOWNLAND	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] An area of rolling hills (downs), often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone.
—	GEOPHAGY	—	[n. -GIES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] The practice of eating earthy substances such as clay and chalk, often during famines or thought to augment a mineral-deficient diet.
—	RENDZINA	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A dark soil that sometimes develops under grass on limestone and chalk.
—	BECHALKED	—	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.
—	CALCICOLE	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Any plant that thrives in a soil rich in lime or chalk, but cannot tolerate acidic conditions.
—	CALCIFUGE	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Any plant that does not thrive in a soil rich in lime or chalk
—	CHALKIEST	—	[a. CHALKIER, CHALKIEST] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Consisting of or containing chalk.
—	CHALKLIKE	—	[a. ] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Having characteristics of chalk
—	COCCOLITH	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized
—	COMMINUTE	DS	[v. -NUTED, -NUTING, -NUTES] · © to reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth
—	CRAYONIST	S	[n. -S] · Derivative of crayon «a small stick or pencil of charcoal, wax, clay, or chalk mixed with coloured pigment»
—	GEOPHAGIA	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
—	WHITEWASH	—	[v. -ED, -ING°, -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
—	BECHALKING	—	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
—	BLACKBOARD	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.
—	CHALKBOARD	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.
—	CHALKBROOD	S	[n. -S] A fungal disease of honey bees that gives the bodies of affected larvae a…
—	COMMINUTED	—	[v. -NUTED, -NUTING, -NUTES] · © to reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth
—	COMMINUTES	—	[v. -NUTED, -NUTING, -NUTES] · © to reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth
—	CRAYONISTS	—	[n. -S] · Derivative of crayon «a small stick or pencil of charcoal, wax, clay, or chalk mixed with coloured pigment»
—	GEOPHAGIAS	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
—	GLAUCONITE	S	[n. -S] · © the green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash
—	BLACKBOARDS	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.
—	CHALKBOARDS	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.
—	COMMINUTING	—	[v. -NUTED, -NUTING, -NUTES] · © to reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth
—	GLAUCONITES	—	[n. -S] · © the green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash

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