encaustic

1. 1.

   a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application

   Broaderpaint

Other forms of encaustic

plural

encaustics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about encaustic

What does encaustic mean?

encaustic means "a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application".

How many syllables are in encaustic?

encaustic has 3 syllables: en-cau-stic. The stress falls on "cau".

Is encaustic a common word?

encaustic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.