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Acerb
adjective · 78% connection
Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Acescent
adjective · 78% connection
Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Acetic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Acetous
adjective · 78% connection
Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Acid
adjective · 78% connection
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Acidulate
verb · 78% connection
To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Bitter
verb · 78% connection
Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Bittersweet
adjective · 78% connection
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Cathartin
noun · 78% connection
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Chrysarobin
noun · 78% connection
A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Colocynth
noun · 78% connection
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Eager
adjective · 78% connection
Sharp; sour; acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Glycocoll
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Gustation
noun · 78% connection
the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Humin
noun · 78% connection
A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sug…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Imbitter
verb · 78% connection
To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
Ligustrin
noun · 78% connection
A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sharp, bitter, acid, sour.
