charcoal

Speech parts

1. charcoal - Noun

2. charcoal - Adjective

3. charcoal - Verb

4. charcoal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

coke char carbon soot fusain charcoal grey oxford gray oxford grey wood coal charcoal gray raven blackwood nero ebon ash
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Antonyms

golden shining bright clean gay brilliant
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Hypernyms

gray fuel carbon draw drawing grey

Phrases with the word

charcoal grill charcoal bread charcoal mellowing charcoal-broil charcoal lace activated charcoal filter

Examples

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping. Gabriel García Márquez

If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man's head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature. Swami Vivekananda

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. Harry Houdini

Not all that is black is charcoal. Filipino Proverb

You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal. Russian Proverb

Cold teaches a man how to steal charcoal. Moroccan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Charchan charchari charcloth charcoal beetle charcoal bread charcoal burner