Associations to the word «Nitre»

Wiktionary

NITRE, noun. British spelling standard spelling of niter.
NITRE, noun. (obsolete) native sodium carbonate; natron
NITRE OF POTASH, noun. (obsolete) Potassium nitrate.

Dictionary definition

NITRE, noun. (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne