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   asbestos

   /asˈbɛstəs/

   noun

   • 1. a highly heat-resistant fibrous silicate mineral that can be woven into fabrics, and is used in brake linings and in fire-resistant and insulating materials: "asbestos was used for pipe insulation"
   • ▪ fabric containing asbestos.

   Word Origin early 17th century, via Latin from Greek asbestos ‘unquenchable’ (applied by Dioscurides to quicklime), from a- ‘not’ + sbestos (from sbennumi ‘quench’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. asbestine adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • A

     1

   • S

     1

   • B

     3

   • E

     1

   • S

     1

   • T

     1

   • O

     1

   • S

     1

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