(linguistics) A technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with a common ancestor.

The fused material for making glass.

Muntz metal

Muntz metal / (UK, auctions) Gold (or some alloy of gold) that cannot be labelled as gold in the UK because it does not bear an Assay Office mark.

A method of teaching through questions rather than lectures.

The type of coal used for the making of steel.

Hard dark stone crushed into small pieces used in surfacing roads, for ballast in railway tracks, etc.; gravel; blue metal.

A weapon which originated in ancient China, consisting of two weights connected by a rope or chain.

plural of meteor hammer

plural of metallic bond