Word Finder - pellets

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A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

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a pellet of wood, paper, or ore

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A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.

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Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.

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A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).

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One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

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To form into pellets.

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• pelletize

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To strike with pellets.

Inside the coup, she dumped the pellets into the hanging feeder.

It stood and retrieved small blue pellets from its bed, offering them to her.

Carmen left Alex with the doe and ducked into the dairy, returning with a scoop of alfalfa pellets she distributed in the long narrow feed trough along the wall.

Only ever bought one tub of hooker pellets and they were green.

You might have to mash its pellets and add water to make a mush.

Daniel float fished luncheon meat over small carp pellets.

They are swallowed whole and later any indigestible parts are regurgitated in the form of pellets.

There are still pellets embedded within the scrotum area.

Use slug traps filled with beer or milk instead of pellets.

The Chemicals Slug pellets are probably the most used forms of chemical slug killers.

The chips or pellets can be tipped directly from a tipper truck or trailer into an bunker.

These small pine pellets form sawdust around moisture and trap in odors effectively.

Pine litter can be rough on the delicate pads of a cat's feet, feet that have become accustomed to the softer clay and silica pellets that previously lined their boxes.

The different feel of walking on the pellets may turn off some cats if the change is done too rapidly.

The uranium that is used in the reactor to create the nuclear energy must be mined, transported, contained in ceramic pellets, and packed into tubes which are brought to the reactor.

According to the EPA, plastic is recycled by breaking down the material into small pellets which are then used to create new plastics.

The "beans" in Beanie Babies are PVC pellets.

Your post was timely, I shall sprinkle some slug pellets around them to keep them safe.

Plastic pellets floating in seawater can also choke and poison sea life.

Your pot should have a layer of coarse material -- ranging from potsherds to styrofoam pellets -- in the bottom to help with drainage.

Alternatively, you can use time-release fertilizer pellets.

Instead, plants are grown in a medium such as clay pellets or gravel and a liquid nutrient solution is circulated through the roots of the plants, providing the root system with all the moisture, nutrients and oxygen needed to survive.

Growing medium - This is what the plants are grown in, usually consisting of pebbles, perlite, expanded clay pellets, rockwool or lava rocks.

For example you can buy alfalfa pellets or soy bean meal at many livestock feed stores.

Chomp your way through the maze and munch all the dot pellets in your way while avoiding ghosts who chase after you.

In internal radiation (brachytherapy), radioactive liquid or pellets are delivered to the cancerous site via a pill, injection, or insertion in a sealed container.

Radiation may be delivered externally or internally via surgically implanted pellets.

Penetrating injuries to the nasal area caused by air gun or BB pellets were as of 2004 also reported with increasing frequency in older children and adolescents.

Air gun or BB pellets that have penetrated the nose or nearby sinuses are generally removed with the help of an endoscope, which is a slender tubular instrument that allows the doctor to examine the inside of a body cavity.

Another competing brand is Nasco Turtle Brittle, which is composed of larger turtle pellets and is endorsed by the Department of Herpetology at Atlanta, Georgia's Zoo Atlanta.

She trudged through the snow to the shed and filled a plastic bucket with pellets.

You can also use alfalfa or rabbit pellets which are absorbent and edible.

Swimstim Koi Pellets - Swimstim has been developed from Koi technology into a nutritionally perfect attractant it contains the most appetizing ingredients possible.

Airguns can be used in the garden providing a safe backstop is used to stop pellets leaving the premises.

The Owl group dissected barn owl pellets, which revealed the number of field voles taken by barn owl pellets, which revealed the number of field voles taken by barn owls.

The fish was taken from a silty patch at 30 yards on a Perfection Groundbaits bloodworm pop-up over the bloodworm pellets.

The pineapple bomb was made up of 250 metal pellets inside a small canister.

All the fish fell to soft pellet fished over small carp pellets and crushed corn.

These pellets have been soaked in real lion dung - cats are terrified of lions.

Its limbs are decorated with pellets imitating precious gems.

There were 2 days with hail; ice pellets fell on the 19th and hail stones of more than 11mm on the 20th.

Steve fished a small float 4 rods out and feed hemp and carp pellet fishing soft pellets on the hook.

The pegs by the chalets are popular and the fish see regular helpings of grub that include hemp and pellets.

Simon fished flavored corn on the hook together with soft hook pellets.

Frozen cell pellets were thawed on ice over night and re-suspended in a total volume of 50 ml lysis buffer.

A few shovels of manure, straw and poultry manure pellets thrown over the top will create extra warmth to speed up the process.

All of Chris's fish came to small pieces of luncheon meat fished over carp pellets.

Best feed 4mm - 6mm halibut pellets, chopped meat or hemp.

The best probiotic is caecal pellets from a healthy rabbit, which have a mucus coating to withstand stomach acid.

Almost a year ago, in an exchange of correspondence, a friend asked my opinion of how shotgun pellets kill.