Associations to the word «Saltpeter»

Wiktionary

SALTPETER, noun. (US) Alternative spelling of saltpetre

Dictionary definition

SALTPETER, noun. (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne