Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A thin coating of ice, as on rock.
Etymologies
- French, from Old French verre-glaz : verre, glass (from Latin vitrum) + glas, glace, ice (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs; see glacé). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“J'ai depensé des centaine de dollars chez Luts en fringues d'hiver pour Ezy qui ne serviront a rien puisque malgre l'alerte orange voire rouge nous n'avons aucun flocon de neige ... juste trois quatre plaque de verglas a la con .... bref!”
“Aussi, on est en alerte orange, bientot rouge pour la neige, le verglas et tout et tout alors bon ...”
“Pas pour toujours mais genre quand ya du verglas ou des trucs comme ca comme elle habite pas loin du boulot.”
“Time slipped by and the salt trucks had passed and the sun had burned most of the verglas off the trees where it dripped, dripped onto the ground.”
“My eyebrows were soon covered in hoarfrost, and my fleece was turned to verglas.”
“He beat the verglas from its sides and drew it on, zipping it to the throat and pulling up the hood.”
“Pushing myself, continually out of breath, I scurried up and to the left across small snowfields linked by narrow runnels of verglas and short rock bands.”
“Barely breathing now, I moved my feet up, scrabbling my crampon points across the verglas.”
“The ice in the chimney did in fact prove to be continuous, but it was very, very thin -- just a gossamer film of verglas.”
“Sifflait; sur le verglas, dans des lieux inconnus,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘verglas’.
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phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
vulviform, vulvar, vulturine, vulpine, vulpicide, vulpecular, vulnerose, vulsella, vulnerary, vulnerate, vulgus, vulgo and 396 more...
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Mountaineering
mountaineering terms:
some of these more unusual ones came from the book Nanda Devi: Exploration and Ascentmoraine, cirque, couloir, arete, topee, gendarme, jat, dotial, bhotia, coolies, sahib, bharal and 9 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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word list!!!!
lagniappe
syzygy, bloviate, lagniappe, laconic, condign, umbrage, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious, capitulate, glower, repast and 179 more...
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richardr's Words
marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Bananaray's list
words to dwell on.
peregrination, dulcet, wandering, petrichor, cavort, sonant, gunge, cosmorama, efflorescence, lament, timbre, oscine and 22 more...
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Ice Ice Baby
Geographical and weather-related ice formations and phenomena.
frazil, shuga, grease, brash, ice cake, finger rafting, lead, polynya, sea ice, pack ice, ice-blink, ice scour and 88 more...
Tweets
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apgarian thin layer of ice coating a rocky surface or path Sep 5, 2009