alaskite
noun
alas·kite
ə-ˈla-ˌskīt
plural -s
: a leucocratic granite of medium or fine grain composed chiefly of quartz and alkali feldspars
Word History
Etymology
Alaska, its locality + English -ite
First Known Use
1883, in the meaning defined above
- hyposulphites
- hyposyllogistic
- hyposynergia
- hypotactic
- hypotarsus
- hypotaxes
- hypotaxis
- hypotension
- hypotensions
- hypotensive
- hypotensives
- hypotenuse
- hypotenuses
- hypothalami
- hypothalamic
- hypothalamico-
- hypothalamo-
- hypothalamus
- mountebankeries
- mountebankery
- mountebanking
- mountebanks
- mounted
- Mounted Cornet
- mounted delivery