charcoal

charcoal has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
• n.. a stick of black carbon material used for drawing
• n.. a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material
• n.. a very dark grey color
• n.. a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
• v.. draw, trace, or represent with charcoal
• a.. of a very dark grey