Cryptic crossword clue
Type of glass that may cause irritation? 8

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TEMPERED

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What does TEMPERED mean?

TEMPERED adjective
  1. (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
  2. Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
  3. Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
  4. Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
  5. Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
TEMPERED verb
  1. To moderate or control.
  2. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
  3. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
  4. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
  5. To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
  6. (Latinism) To govern; to manage.
  7. To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
  8. To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
  9. To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

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