Phrase Hound found 60 phrases and 4 compound words that contain coals. The most common are listed below. Open coals in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 60
- carry coals to NewcastleTo do something that is unneeded or redundant.
- coals to NewcastleA pointless venture, in the sense of sending something to a place where it is made, or where they already have an abundance.
- boghead coalsplural of boghead coal: Torbanite.
- rake over the coalsTo call to task or to reprimand severely.
- haul someone over the coalsTo express anger with someone in no uncertain terms when they do something wrong.
- carrying coals to Newcastlepresent participle and gerund of carry coals to Newcastle
- selling coals to Newcastlepresent participle and gerund of sell coals to Newcastle
- taking coals to Newcastlepresent participle and gerund of take coals to Newcastle
- barley coalsplural of barley coal: Anthracite coal of the smallest category, and which is approximately the size of a coarse grain of sand.
- black coalsplural of black coal: Bituminous coal, as distinguished from hard coal (anthracite).
- candle coalsplural of candle coal: Alternative form of cannel (“coal”).
- cherry coalsplural of cherry coal: Soft coal that breaks off easily into small, irregular cubes with a shining luster.
- gas coalsplural of gas coal: A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.
- gathering coalsplural of gathering coal: coal left lit and smothered in embers overnight, around which kindling wood is gathered the morning after.
- glance coalsplural of glance coal: Any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite.
- hard coalsplural of hard coal: Anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous soft coal.
- kennel coalsplural of kennel coal: cannel
- small coalsplural of small coal: Charcoal.
- steam coalsplural of steam coal: A coal which has a grade between bituminous coal and anthracite, and which was once widely used as a fuel for steam engines in ships and locomotives.
- buckwheat coalsplural of buckwheat coal: small-sized anthracite coal
- smithy coalsplural of smithy coal: A kind of small coal much used by smiths.
- blew the coalssimple past of blow the coals
- blow the coalsTo excite passion.
- blowing the coalspresent participle and gerund of blow the coals
- blown the coalspast participle of blow the coals: To excite passion.
Compound words 4
- charcoalsplural of charcoal: impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
- coalsacksplural of coalsack: A sack for carrying coal.
- Coalsonsplural of Coalson: A surname.
- quenchcoalsplural of quenchcoal: A person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion.