Before this app came out (wolfram) there was a mobile iPhone formatted wolfram alpha site that was amazing!— Alpha.CNET.com: Most recent posts
Do you know what wolfram is No, I have never heard of it," humbly admitted Sophy Well, it is ore used for hardening steel--extremely scarce and valuable; it comes from Tavoy, but business connected with it takes me up and down the river, and even as far as Calcutta and Singapore.— The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma
This metal--which is known as "wolfram" in Germany, and to some extent in English-speaking countries--is one of the heaviest of elements, having a specific gravity of 19.1.— Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization
The corresponding group consists of oxygen, chromium, molybdenum, wolfram (tungsten) and uranium, with a blank disk between wolfram and uranium: these are diatomic, paramagnetic, and negative.— Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements
We have not examined barium, wolfram, or uranium Illustration: PLATE VIII BERYLLIUM (Plate III, 2, and Plate VIII, 1).— Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements

American Heritage Dictionary (1)
Century Dictionary (1)
Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year
Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed
You can expect to see this word about once a year.
Recently looked upconical · flouncy · pledge · rain-sodden · sleep |
Recent Favoritespygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms |
Recent Pronunciationsmaladministration · antidisestablishmentarianism · parsimonious · soliloquy · insipid |