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-ster
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinste…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Baptize
verb · 78% connection
To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Basil
noun · 78% connection
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Bombardon
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now gi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Borax
noun · 78% connection
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Candytuft
noun · 78% connection
An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Clam
verb · 78% connection
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Claret
noun · 78% connection
The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Columbium
noun · 78% connection
A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
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: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Entire
noun · 78% connection
A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Gabbro
noun · 78% connection
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
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: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Induline
noun · 78% connection
A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also anil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Matte
noun · 78% connection
A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Metal
verb · 78% connection
To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
Metallic
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, acid, metal.
