curie
7 points
English
5 letters
Uncommon
Commonness #30,583
Valid in: US and UK dictionaries
Definitions
noun
French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
Definition: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.
Pronunciation
/kjʊɹˈiː/ · 2 syllables · CMUdict (BSD-3-Clause)
Word forms
plural curies
Forms from WordNet 3.1 morphology — every form attested in the dictionary.
Rhymes
More rhymes → · rhymes from CMUdict (BSD-3-Clause)
Crossword clues
- “Chemical substance scientist” wd-fact-v3
- “Mineralogy scientist” wd-fact-v3
- “Music scientist” wd-fact-v3
- “Physics scientist” wd-fact-v3
- “Piezoelectricity scientist” wd-fact-v3
Anagrams
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