overpowder
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Writing in his quaint way of the salt of the word, he says, "Indeed, a man may overpowder, and there is discretion in salting.""
- "They overpowder and overperfume themselves, and color their finger-nails too harsh a color."
- "These include overpowdering a latent print and applying too much pressure when dusting the print."
- "[…] to allow for the extra space taken up by the special overpowder wad."
- "A two part wad column for use in shotshells is provided which consist of an overpowder component comprising inner and outer concentric cylindrical walls attached to a skirted end plate […]"
- "On firing, some of the hot gases from burning powder were able to bypass the overpowder and filler wads and reach the shot charge."
Etymology
From over- + powder.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over