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Adamant
noun · 78% connection
A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Cannula
noun · 78% connection
A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually assoc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Caoutchouc
noun · 78% connection
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Corticine
noun · 78% connection
A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Deckle
noun · 78% connection
A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Diathermal
adjective · 78% connection
Freely permeable by radiant heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Elastic
adjective · 78% connection
Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twiste…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Football
noun · 78% connection
An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Hose
noun · 78% connection
A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hyd…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Ice
noun · 78% connection
Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, cry…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Impenetrable
adjective · 78% connection
Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrabl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Impregnate
verb · 78% connection
To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furn…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Jungle
noun · 78% connection
A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Kamptulicon
noun · 78% connection
A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Leachy
adjective · 78% connection
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Leaky
superl. · 78% connection
Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Linoleum
noun · 78% connection
Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chlor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
Masticator
noun · 78% connection
A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: permeable, permitting, passage, fluid, substance.
