| asphalt | (noun) a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: mineral pitch |
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| (noun) mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing | - |
| (verb) cover with tar or asphalt | - |
| basalt | (noun) the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene | - |
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| cobalt | (noun) a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition | Synonyms: atomic number 27, Co |
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| desalt | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinise, desalinize |
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| exalt | (verb) raise in rank, character, or status | - |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| gestalt | (noun) a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts | - |
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| halt | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halting, lame |
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| (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: freeze |
| (noun) the event of something ending | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stanch, staunch, stem |
| (verb) come to a halt, stop moving | Synonyms: stop |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: arrest, hold |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, kibosh, stop |
| malt | (noun) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling | - |
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| (noun) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer | Synonyms: malt liquor |
| (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malted, malted milk |
| (verb) convert into malt | - |
| (verb) turn into malt, become malt | - |
| (verb) convert grain into malt | - |
| (verb) treat with malt or malt extract | - |
| salt | (adjective) (of speech) painful or bitter | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, saltiness |
| (noun) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food | Synonyms: common salt, table salt |
| (noun) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) | - |
| (verb) preserve with salt | - |
| (verb) add zest or liveliness to | - |
| (verb) sprinkle as if with salt | - |
| (verb) add salt to | - |