Usually means: Potassium nitrate, used in gunpowder.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word nitre:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. nitre: Merriam-Webster
  2. nitre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nitre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nitre: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nitre: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nitre, nitre: Wordnik
  7. nitre: Wiktionary
  8. nitre: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Nitre, nitre: Dictionary.com
  10. Nitre (disambiguation), Nitre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Nitre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. nitre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. nitre: Rhymezone
  14. Nitre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. nitre: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nitre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. nitre: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nitre: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nitre: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. nitre: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nitre: Easton Bible
  2. Nitre: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. NITRE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nitre)

noun:  British standard spelling of niter.

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