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CULET

Specialty Definition: CULET

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Chemistry

The flat face on the lower side of a gem cut as a brilliant; spelled also cullet, collet. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. The small lower terminus of a brilliant-cut gem. It is parallel to the table b. The small facet that is polished parallel to the girdle plane across what would otherwise be the sharp point or ridge that terminates the pavilion of a diamond or other gemstone. Its principal function is toreduce the possibility of damage to the gemstone. Also spelled collet. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CULET

Specialty definitions using "CULET": trap cut. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CULET

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

culet

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CULET

Language Translations for "CULET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

colette (cullet), pointe de culasse (cullet), facette terminale (cullet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uletcay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CULET

Derivations

Words beginning with "CULET": culets. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CULET" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caleta, calte, clet, Clett, cluce, Cluett, Coleta, collett, Colte, Coslet, Culag, culate, cule, culer, culit, cullest, Cullett, cullit, culot, Culte, culvet, cuplet, cuvet, Hulett, kulit, Ucet, Ullet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CULET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-l-t-u"

-1 letter: celt, clue, cult, cute, luce, lute, tule.

-2 letters: cel, cue, cut, ecu, let, leu, tel.

-3 letters: el, et, ut.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-l-t-u"
 

+1 letter: culets, cullet, cutely, cutler, cutlet, cuttle, dulcet, lucent, luetic, reluct.

 

+2 letters: acutely, calumet, cloture, clouted, clouter, cluster, clutter, coulter, couplet, cruelty, cuittle, cullets, culotte, culture, culvert, cuticle, cutlers, cutlery, cutlets, cutline, cuttled, cuttles, ductile, ductule, dulcets, lecture, lettuce, leucite, linecut, luetics, mulcted, noctule, octuple, relucts, scuttle, sulcate, truckle, tunicle, utricle.

 

+3 letters: aculeate, bluecoat, bluetick, calumets, canulate, centuple, chestful, closeout, clotured, clotures, cloudlet, clouters, clubfeet, clusters, clustery, clutched, clutches, clutters, cluttery, copulate, couldest, coulters, couplets, cruelest, cuittled, cuittles, culottes, cultches, cultigen, cultlike, cultrate, cultured, cultures, cultuses, culverts, cumulate, cupulate, curliest, cuticles, cutlases, cutlines, cuttable, ductless, ductules, dulcetly, electrum, esculent, eucalypt, feculent, jaculate, lacteous, lacunate, lectured, lecturer, lectures, lecythus, lettuces, leucites, leucitic, leukotic, linecuts, loculate, locustae, lucently, luckiest, luculent, lutecium, maculate, muscatel, noctules, nucleate, occulted, occulter, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplex, osculate, peculate, plectrum, poultice, relucent, relucted, resculpt, reticula, reticule, sculpted, scutella, scuttled, scuttles, selcouth, sulcated, telluric, tenacula, trauchle, truckled, truckler, truckles, tubercle, tunicles, ulcerate, unclothe, utricles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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