Dental floss material

The answer

NYLON

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NYLON answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NYLON

Every other clue in this collection answered by NYLON, most used first.

• Hose material - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Parachute material - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Stocking material - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Hosiery material - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Stocking stuff - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Parachute fabric - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Backpack material - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Synthetic fabric - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Chute material - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Windbreaker fabric - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Fishing line material - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Synthetic fiber - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Synthetic material - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Jeans material - DENIM, used 135 times
• Reef material - CORAL, used 130 times
• Suit material - SERGE, used 103 times
• Pueblo material - ADOBE, used 81 times
• Roofing material - SLATE, used 81 times
• Girder material - STEEL, used 55 times

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