New Crossword Solver
New Crossword Solver
Start typing and press "Enter" or "ESC" to close
Solver
Assistant
Anagram
Word Meaning
Find the meaning or definition of a word or phrase in English
Search
x
Meaning of metalloid
- Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
- Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids.
- Having the appearance of a metal.
- Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.
Latest view
ganges
mega
gam
sticks out
shikaree
mara
galway
obeliscal
galas
lurg
india
gains on
lugs
amphiscians
coctile
transcendentality
gaggles
gaga
luce
electromagnetic
Popular word
waft
shipless
cicero
hunk
thwite
diablerie
stonish
lite
preceptive
scarab
scissors
ministress
plashy
pilot
studio
stoneroot
sapotaceous
godhood
pearl eyed
locusting
Random Words
Nidgery
Antipyretic
Stuff
Misanthropic
Armory
Zoanthus
Jerking
Amphitheatral
Blooding
Tompon
Sleuthhound
Ling
Mark
Runer
Sweet
Scur
Elsewhere
Aspect
Equator
Velella