Noun: briquette
| Singular | briquette |
| Plural | briquettes |
Sample Sentences
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[…] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […] [1913, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6358, page 2724:]
Nouns inflected like briquette
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). See: French Nouns '
briquette'.