Clues for the word "ELEMENT"
We've had 135 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 230 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on March 04, 2026.
Definition of element
- n. - One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- n. - One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.
- n. - One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.
- n. - One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.
- n. - One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.
- n. - One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.
- n. - An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.
- n. - Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.
- n. - One of the terms in an algebraic expression.
- n. - One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.
- n. - The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.
- n. - Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan.
- n. - One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.
- n. - The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire
- n. - the conditions and movements of the air.
- n. - The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.
- n. - The whole material composing the world.
- n. - The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper.
- v. t. - To compound of elements or first principles.
- v. t. - To constitute; to make up with elements.
Referring Clues
- Nickel, e.g.
- Part of a table?
- Natural habitat
- Earth, wind or fire
- Milieu
- Sodium or chlorine
- Natural setting
- Nickel, but not dime
- It's found in a table
- Mercury, for one
- Copper or nickel
- Normal habitat
- Honda model
- Factor
- Mercury, e.g.
- Home environment
- Component
- Range part
- Helium or hydrogen
- Gold or silver, but not bronze
- Nitrogen or oxygen
- Natural environment
- Electric device with terminals
- Gold or silver
- Comfort zone
- Favorable environment
- Oxygen or aluminum
- Stomping grounds
- Palladium, e.g.
- Earth, wind or fire, to an early scientist
- Sodium or chlorine, e.g.
- Neon or nobelium, e.g.
- Periodic-table component
- Gold, e.g.
- Periodic table entry
- Periodic table listing
- 21-Down, e.g.
- See 39 Across
- Silver or sulfur
- Tin or titanium
- Carbon or copper
- Neon or nickel
- Silver or gold
- Fire or water
- It may be found on a table
- Copper, e.g.
- One of over 100 on a table
- Chlorine, argon, or potassium
- Constituent
- Something found on a chemist's table
- Feature
- Hydrogen or helium
- Sulphur, e.g.
- Helium, e.g.
- Earth, air, fire or water
- Tin or tungsten
- Carbon
- Carbon, e.g.
- Periodic table item
- Nickel, for instance
- Carbon is one
- Silver or sodium
- Sodium or sulfur
- Mercury, not Mars
- The answer to each clue that says "This, on the periodic table"
- Basic building block forming part of kettle
- "Broken Promises" ___ Eighty
- He is a colourless one
- Appalling melee at National Trust unit
- Factor when last in race, fast catching me
- Trace oriental allowed to keep chess pieces
- Fire, perhaps, as heater
- Part water, perhaps?
- Iron, for instance - part of an electric kettle
- Basic chemical unit
- Basic substance or feature
- Primary chemical substance
- Platinum or plutonium
- Fundamental part of whole
- Letters 12 to 14 spelled out on front of tiny building block
- Ingredient - small amount
- If you're in yours, it's bliss!
- Operative part of an electric kettle
- Component - factor
- Fire, or part of one
- Member of crew in Spain gave permission
- One constituent of fire may be oxygen, for example
- English allow people in - perhaps into a compound
- 36 Across, e.g.
- Berkelium or californium
- Tin is one
- For example, copper kettle contains this
- Heating coil
- Heating wire
- Quarter people in rented section
- People in TV without vision coming up for oxygen, say
- Group in which one feels happiest?
- Water, perhaps, that's in a kettle
- Lead, perhaps, in which you show your best
- Basic component in old school having expelled wayward Ray
- The French soldiers in alien water, for example
- The bar in which one is happiest
- Constituent in third of elections soundly represented
- One's happy in one's earth, perhaps
- Hydrogen, e.g.
- Oxygen, e.g.
- Moscovium, at #115
- Silver, e.g.
- Silver or silicon
- Fellows in TV turning up to Palladium, perhaps
- Argon or arsenic
- Nickel or neon
- Chemical substance
- Xenon or zirconium
- Any of the rare-earth metals
- Heating component
- Krypton, e.g.
- He, e.g.
- Source of heat for situation in which you're most effective
- Constituent part
- Chlorine or krypton
- H or O, in H2O
- He or I, but not you?
- Krypton, but not Tatooine
- U, V, W or Y, but not X
- One of more than 115 on a table
- Erbium, terbium or ytterbium
- In Primo Levi's "The Periodic Table," each chapter is named after one
- Helium or carbon
- Carbon, neon or chlorine
- Carbon or gold, for example
- Iron, e.g.
- He or I, but not she
- Mercury, but not Mars
- Mercury, but not Venus
Last Seen In
- New York Times - March 04, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 25, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 01, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 20, 2025
- LA Times - November 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2025
- New York Times - August 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 01, 2025
- New York Times - May 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 24, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 28, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 13, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 26, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 22, 2024
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