coal

Meanings

Plural: coals

Noun

fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
Charcoal.
Content of low quality.
Bombs emitting black smoke on impact.
Money.

Verb

burn to charcoal
supply with coal
take in coal
- "The big ship coaled"
To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
To supply with coal.
To be converted to charcoal.
To burn to charcoal; to char.
To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Adj

Black like coal; coal-black.

Origin / 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 Middle Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvi̇̀lti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoġâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.

Synonyms

char, ember

Scrabble Score: 6

coal is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
coal is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
coal is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

coal is a valid Words With Friends word