Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spelter

1 sense of spelter

Sense 1
spelter -- (impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots))
       => zinc, Zn, atomic number 30 -- (a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende)