Definition of coal

"coal" in the noun sense

1. coal

fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

2. ember, coal

a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

"coal" in the verb sense

1. char, coal

burn to charcoal

"Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

2. coal

supply with coal

3. coal

take in coal

"The big ship coaled"

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Quotations for coal

I have a cold coal to blow at. [ Proverb ]

Wood half-coal is easily kindled. [ Proverb ]

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But, though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. [ George Herbert ]

With eyes that looked into the very soul -
Bright - and as black and burning as a coal. [ Byron ]

If by fire of sooty coal the empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
Metals of drossest ore to perfect gold. [ Milton ]

He touches it as warily as a cat does a coal of fire. [ Proverb ]

The poor man's penny unjustly detained, is a coal of fire in a rich man's purse. [ Proverb ]

Affection is a coal that must be cooled: Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no such thing as a white lie; a lie is as black as a coal-pit, and twice as foul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. [ William Penn ]

He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man. [ Carlyle ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]

coal in Scrabble®

The word coal is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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coal in Words With Friends™

The word coal is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Word Growth involving coal

Shorter words in coal

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Longer words containing coal

charcoal charcoaled

charcoal charcoaling

charcoal charcoalist charcoalists

charcoal charcoals

charcoal charcoaly

coalbag coalbagger coalbaggers

coalbag coalbagging

coalbag coalbags

coalball coalballs

coalbin coalbins

coalblack

coalbox coalboxes

coaldealer coaldealers

coaled charcoaled

coaled recoaled

coaler coalers

coalesce coalesced uncoalesced

coalesce coalescence coalescences

coalesce coalescencies

coalesce coalescency

coalesce coalescent uncoalescent

coalesce coalescer coalescers

coalesce coalesces uncoalesces

coalesce uncoalesce uncoalesced

coalesce uncoalesce uncoalescent

coalesce uncoalesce uncoalesces

coalescing uncoalescing

coalface coalfaces

coalfield coalfields

coalfish coalfishes

coalfitter coalfitters

coalhole coalholes

coalhouse coalhouses

coalier

coaliest

coalification coalifications

coalified

coalifies

coalify coalifying

coaling charcoaling

coaling coalingite coalingites

coaling recoaling

coalise coalised

coalise coaliser coalisers

coalise coalises

coalising

coalite coalites

coalition coalitional coalitionally

coalition coalitioner coalitioners

coalition coalitionism coalitionisms

coalition coalitionist coalitionists

coalition coalitions

coalize coalized

coalize coalizer coalizers

coalize coalizes

coalizing

coalless

coalman

coalmaster coalmasters

coalmen

coalmice

coalmine coalminer coalminers

coalmine coalmines

coalmonger coalmongers

coalmouse

coalpit coalpits

coalrake coalrakes

coals charcoals

coals coalsack coalsacks

coals coalshed coalsheds

coals recoals

coaltar coaltars

coaly charcoaly

coaly coalyard coalyards

recoal recoaled

recoal recoaling

recoal recoals

silicoalkaline

silicoaluminate silicoaluminates

silicoaluminophosphate silicoaluminophosphates

zygomaticoalveolar