Synonyms of the word

tartar

• n. A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate - a source of cream of…
• n. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth.
• n. (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.

calculus

• n. (dated, countable) Calculation; computation.
• n. (countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to…
• n. (uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as…
• n. (countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
• n. (uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
• n. (countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.

crust

• n. A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
• n. The external layer of most types of bread.
• n. An outer layer composed of pastry.
• n. The bread-like base of a pizza.
• n. (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
• n. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
• n. (uncountable) Nerve, gall.
• n. crust punk (a subgenre of punk music).
• v. (transitive) To cover with a crust.
• v. (intransitive) To form a crust.

dragon

• n. A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
• n. A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Wales.
• n. An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance.
• n. (astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
• n. (pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
• n. (with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of…
• n. (figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
• n. A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
• n. (military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from…
• n. A variety of carrier pigeon.

encrustation

• n. An incrustation.

incrustation

• n. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
• n. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from…
• n. A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
• n. Anything inlaid or imbedded.

salt

• n. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment…
• n. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion…
• n. (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
• n. (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
• n. (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting it, in order to…
• n. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
• n. (obsolete) flavour; taste; seasoning.
• n. (obsolete) piquancy; wit; sense.
• n. (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
• n. (figuratively) That which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic;…
• adj. Salty; salted.
• adj. Saline.
• adj. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
• adj. (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
• adj. (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
• v. (transitive) To add salt to.
• v. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
• v. (mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
• v. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
• v. To include colorful language in.
• v. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
• v. (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
• v. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

tophus

• n. (medicine) A deposit of monosodium urate crystals in the body, caused by high levels of uric acid in the…