Clues for the word "GNEISS"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 68 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on December 18, 2025.
Definition of gneiss
- n. - A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.
Referring Clues
- Rock variety
- Sparkly rock
- Banded rock
- Layered rock
- Metamorphic rock
- Banded metamorphic rock
- Rock similar to granite
- Pleasant-sounding rock?
- Quartz source
- Type of layered rock
- Rock with colored bands
- Granitelike rock
- Coarse-grained rock
- Rock whose name sounds good?
- Rock can be kind on the ear
- 14 (part 1)? Sounds good!
- Hard stuff derived from champagne is sensational!
- Rock agreeable to the audience
- Foliated metamorphic rock
- Fine, sound stone
- Type of rock formed from igneous or sedimentary rocks
- Badly singes rock
- Rock that sounds swell
- Laminated rock
- Rock with many bands
- Pleasant-sounding rock?
- Rock with bands
Last Seen In
- Daily American - December 18, 2025
- New York Times - July 18, 2025
- Family Time - February 23, 2025
- Daily American - January 30, 2025
- Daily American - January 09, 2024
- Daily American - December 18, 2023
- Daily American - January 30, 2023
- Daily American - January 09, 2018
- Chronicle of Higher Education - January 05, 2018
- Daily American - December 18, 2017
- Family Time - November 26, 2017
- Universal - November 24, 2017
- Guardian Weekend - May 06, 2017
- New York Times - May 05, 2017
- Daily American - January 30, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - August 16, 2016
- New York Times - June 12, 2016
- New York Times - April 10, 2016
- USA Today - September 16, 2015
- LA Times - September 06, 2015
- LA Times - May 21, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 27, 2015
- Universal - February 09, 2015
- New York Times - November 21, 2014
- LA Times - October 28, 2014
- Family Time - August 04, 2014
- Netword - December 22, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - December 06, 2013
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 28, 2013
- Universal - August 04, 2013
- And in 38 more crossword puzzles...