HARDNESS PLATES

Domain	Definition
Mining	A series of small pieces of minerals of differing hardness, polished flat, and set side by side in cement, for testing hardness of another mineral, which is drawn across one piece after another, beginning with the hardest,until it scratches one. (references)
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Anagrams: HARDNESS PLATES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-l-n-p-r-s-s-s-t"
	-3 letters: apartnesses, depressants, handpresses, pantdresses, pentahedral, transshaped, transshapes.
	-4 letters: depressant, esplanades, hardnesses, heartlands, parentless, pearlashes, pentahedra, pleasanter, raptnesses, seastrands, slapdashes, spearheads, threadless, transshape, trespassed.
	-5 letters: adeptness, adherents, alertness, apartness, aptnesses, arsenates, ashplants, asperated, asperates, asphalted, assenters, deathless, depthless, desalters, detassels, earthpeas, elastases, elephants, endplates, esplanade, handpress, harnessed, harnesses, hasteners, headrests, heartland, heartless, natheless, neatherds.
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