Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 13 compound words that contain spars. The most common are listed below. Open spars in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- satin sparsplural of satin spar: A fine fibrous variety of either calcite or gypsum, with a pearly luster.
- brown sparsplural of brown spar: A ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.
- Derbyshire sparsplural of Derbyshire spar: blue John (mineral)
- fluor sparsplural of fluor spar: A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.
- Greenland sparsplural of Greenland spar: The mineral sodium hexafluoroaluminate (Na₃AlF₆).
- heavy sparsplural of heavy spar: Native barium sulphate; barite.
- Iceland sparsplural of Iceland spar: A transparent form of calcite, used to demonstrate the polarization of light.
- K-sparsplural of K-spar: potassic feldspar
- Labrador sparsplural of Labrador spar: A plagioclase feldspar mineral, calcium sodium aluminum silicate, often very coarsely crystalline, used as a decorative stone for carvings and building façades.
- pearl sparsplural of pearl spar: A crystallized variety of dolomite, having a pearly lustre.
- schiller-sparsplural of schiller-spar: An altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronze-like luster.
- dogtooth sparsplural of dogtooth spar: A speleothem composed of many acute-angled calcite crystals formed by mineral precipitation.
- monkey sparsplural of monkey spar: A spar or yard of reduced size, particularly used for training purposes.
- short sparsplural of short spar: A spar or yard of reduced size, particularly used for training purposes.
Compound words 13
- sparselyIn a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.
- SparsholtA village and civil parish in City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4331).
- brownsparsplural of brownspar: A ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.
- fluorsparsplural of fluorspar: A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.
- intersparsplural of interspar: A strut between spars.
- mainsparsplural of mainspar: The main spar of an aircraft
- microsparsplural of microspar: A form of neomorphosed micrite with very small crystals
- sparsestsuperlative form of sparse: most sparse
- sparsitiesplural of sparsity: The property of being sparse; sparseness.
- sparstoneSpar.