Usually means: Carbon-rich material from pyrolyzed wood.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. charcoal: Merriam-Webster
  2. charcoal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. charcoal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. charcoal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. charcoal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Charcoal, charcoal: Wordnik
  7. charcoal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. charcoal: Wiktionary
  9. charcoal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. charcoal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. charcoal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. charcoal: Dictionary.com
  13. charcoal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. charcoal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Charcoal (album), Charcoal (art), Charcoal (color), Charcoal (comics), Charcoal (disambiguation), Charcoal (font), Charcoal (typeface), Charcoal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Charcoal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. charcoal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. charcoal: Rhymezone
  19. Charcoal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. charcoal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. charcoal: FreeDictionary.org
  22. charcoal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. charcoal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. charcoal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. charcoal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. charcoal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Charcoal: art glossary
  3. Charcoal: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. charcoal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. charcoal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. charcoal: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. charcoal, charcoal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. charcoal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See charcoaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
noun:  (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
noun:  (countable) A drawing made with charcoal.
noun:  A very dark gray colour.
adjective:  Of a dark gray colour.
adjective:  Made of charcoal.
verb:  To draw with charcoal.
verb:  To cook over charcoal.

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