1. A scale of hardness of solids; talc is 0 and diamond is 10; ordering is determined by which substance can scratch another substance

Type of: graduated table, ordered series, scale, scale of measurement

Encyclopedia: Mohs scale

• last straw
• Last Supper
• last word
• last-ditch
• last-minute
• last-place
• Lastex
• Lasthenia
• Lasthenia chrysostoma
• lasting
• lastingly
• lastingness
• lastly
• Lastreopsis
• Laszlo Lowestein
• lat
• latakia
• latanier
• latanier palm
• latch
• latch on
• latchet
• latchkey
• latchkey child
• latchstring