cupel

cupel is a 5-letter English word with 3 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
2. transitive verb. To refine by means of a cupel.
3. noun. a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead

Common word forms

cupels, cupeled, cupeler, cupeling, cupelled, cupeller, cupelling

Words from these letters

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