quicklime

Other forms of quicklime

plural

quicklimes·

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 quicklime

What does quicklime mean?

quicklime means "a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide".

How many syllables are in quicklime?

quicklime has 2 syllables: quic-klime. The stress falls on "quic".

What is another word for quicklime?

Close synonyms include calcium oxide, lime, calx, calcined lime, fluxing lime. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quicklime a common word?

quicklime 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.