Word Meanings - METALLOPHONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.

Related words: (words related to METALLOPHONE)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• METALLINE
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.
• METALLOPHONE
  An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• METALEPTIC
  Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
• INSTEAD
  1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii.
• WOODENLY
  Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• METALLOGRAPHIC
  Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
• WOODEN
  1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. 2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• NONMETAL
  Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• MONOMETALLIC
  Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
• BIMETALLIC
  Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
• ROUGHSTRINGS
  Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.
• MONOMETALLISM
  The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.
• STERROMETAL
  Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.