Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 15 compound words that contain grains. The most common are listed below. Open grains in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- grains of paradiseThe seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, used as a medicine and spice, especially as a substitute for black pepper and in flavoring alcoholic beverages.
- Whole grains
- snow grainsA solid precipitation in the form of very small particles of ice; granular snow
- guinea grainsSynonym of grains of paradise: The seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, used as a medicine and spice, especially as a substitute for black pepper and in flavoring alcoholic beverages.
- distillers' grainsA byproduct from distilling that is comparable to the brewers' spent grains from brewing and can be put to some of the same uses, such as animal feed supplementation.
- grains of truthplural of grain of truth: A core accuracy at the heart of a claim or narrative which also contains dubious or fictitious elements.
- ancient grainsplural of ancient grain: A grain or pseudocereal purported to be minimally changed by selective breeding over recent millennia (often used in plural and in the context of marketing)
- feed grainsplural of feed grain: Any of the coarser grains such as corn, milo, and oats.
- troy grainsplural of troy grain: A unit of mass, equal to 1/24 of a pennyweight or 1/480 of a troy ounce, fixed at 0.064 798 91 grams under the metric system.
- pollen grainsplural of pollen grain: A single male reproductive particle of which the pollen of a plant consists.
- kefir grainsplural of kefir grain: A small hard yellowish aggregation found in the Caucasus region, containing various yeasts and bacteria, and used as a ferment in preparing kefir.
- brewers' spent grainsA byproduct from brewing that is comparable to the distillers' grains from distilling and can be put to some of the same uses, such as animal feed supplementation; it comprises what is left of the malted grains after the fermentation …
- grains upthird-person singular simple present indicative of grain up: To grain (something) (To texture a surface).
- Molucca grainsThe highly toxic seeds of the Croton tiglium tree, historically used in traditional medicine to extract croton oil.
Compound words 15
- foodgrainsplural of foodgrain: cereal (grain grown as human food)
- micrograinsplural of micrograin: A microscopic grain
- multigrainsMultiple types of grain, usually in processed form.
- Cassegrainsplural of Cassegrain: Ellipsis of Cassegrain reflector.
- feedgrainsplural of feedgrain: Any of the coarser grains such as corn, milo, and oats.
- grainstonesplural of grainstone: A kind of calcareous rock that lacks mud and is grain-supported.
- grosgrainsplural of grosgrain: A silk fabric having narrow, horizontal ribs.
- nanograinsplural of nanograin: A nanosized grain (in a metal etc.)
- nongrainsplural of nongrain: That which is not grain; a food product not categorised as a grain.
- overgrainsthird-person singular simple present indicative of overgrain: To apply an additional layer of colour to graining, or imitation woodgrain.