Explore further
Words connected by meaning
Their definitions overlap or refer to similar ideas. Use these to widen your search, then compare the exact meanings.
Adipocere
noun · 78% connection
A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are convert…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Atomic number 11
noun · 78% connection
a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Base
adjective · 78% connection
Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Cetin
noun · 78% connection
A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Cholesterin
noun · 78% connection
A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Cutin
noun · 78% connection
The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Elimination
noun · 78% connection
The act of expelling or throwing off
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Ester
noun · 78% connection
An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Ethereal
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Fatty acid
noun · 78% connection
any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Galactin
noun · 78% connection
An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Glyceride
noun · 78% connection
A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Hatchettite
noun · 78% connection
Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Hecdecane
noun · 78% connection
A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Ketone
noun · 78% connection
One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Lanolin
noun · 78% connection
A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Lanthopine
noun · 78% connection
An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
Lethal
noun · 78% connection
One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, waxy, substance, found, small.
