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You can make 12 words from coal according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of coal

coal ocal caol acol oacl aocl cola ocla cloa lcoa olca loca calo aclo clao lcao alco laco oalc aolc olac loac aloc laoc

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Definitions and meaning of coal

coal

Etymology

From Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (compare West Frisian koal, Dutch kool, German Kohle, Danish kul), from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).

Compare Old Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvìlti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoğâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊl/, [kʰɒʊɫ]
• (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɐʉl/, [kʰɒʊɫ]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊl/, [kʰoɫ]
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Homophones: cole, kohl

Noun

coal (countable and uncountable, plural coals)

2. (uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
   2. (countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.

      See also: stockpile

4. (countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)

6. (countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.

   Coordinate terms: ember, ash, clinker

8. charcoal.
9. (Internet slang, 4chan slang) Content of low quality.

10. (military slang, World War I– World War II) Bombs emitting black smoke on impact.

Adjective

coal (comparative coalier, superlative coaliest)

1. (Internet slang, soyjak.party slang, 4chan slang) Failing to be humorous or of extremely poor quality.

2. Black like coal; coal-black.

Verb

coal (third-person singular simple present coals, present participle coaling, simple past and past participle coaled)

1. (Internet slang, 4chan slang) To post low-quality content online.

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Descendants

• → Hausa: kwal

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See also

• ember

Verb

coal (third-person singular simple present coals, present participle coaling, simple past and past participle coaled)

1. (intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
   • 1863, Colonial Secretary to Commander Baldwin, USN

     shortly after that she coaled again at Simon's Bay; and that after remaining in the neighbourhood of our ports for a time, she proceeded to Mauritius, where she coaled again, and then returned to this colony.
2. (transitive) To supply with coal.
   • January 1917, National Geographic Magazine, Volume 31 Number 1, One Hundred British Seaports

     Cruisers may be coaled at sea and provided with ammunition openly. The submarine may not
3. (intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.
4. (transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.
5. (transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.

References

“coal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ALCO, Acol, COLA, Calo, Caló, LCAO, LOAC, LOCA, alco, alco-, cola, loca