calorie (7 letters)
calorie
9
- Length
- 7 letters
- Scrabble score
- 9 points
- Frequency
- Rare
- Pronunciation
- KAL-ur-ee
What it means
- noun — a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food
- noun — unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure