Find your perfect word!
Definition salt
Etymology
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *salt? (compare Dutch zout, German Salz, Norwegian Bokmål salt and Swedish salt), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l- (“salt”) (compare Welsh halen, Irish salann, Latin sal, Russian ???? (sol?), Ancient Greek ??? (háls), Albanian ngjelmë (“salty, savory”), Old Armenian ?? (a?), Tocharian A s?le, Sanskrit ???? (salila)).
Noun
salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
- (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
- (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- (figuratively) Skepticism and common sense.
- (Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.
Adjective
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
- Salty; salted.
- Saline.
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
- (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.
Verb
salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
- To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
- To include colorful language in.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
Results 206 Words with the letters SALT
6 letter words with the letters SALT ↑
5 letter words with the letters SALT ↑
4 letter words with the letters SALT ↑
3 letter words with the letters SALT ↑
2 letter words with the letters SALT ↑
You can also try words with the phrase SALT, words starting with the letters SALT, or words ending in the letters SALT.
Favorites Searches
Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,
Some random searches: Words with the letters AH, Words with the letters JMU, Words with the letters FRACQ, Words with the letters ZZE,