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-ol
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, as car…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Alcohol
noun · 78% connection
A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Alcoholic
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mix…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Antonomasia
noun · 78% connection
The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
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: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Cambium
noun · 78% connection
A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Carbinol
noun · 78% connection
Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the ty…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Cerotin
noun · 78% connection
A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Chlorhydrin
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Formaldehyde
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Fusel oil
unknown · 78% connection
A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Glycol
noun · 78% connection
Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Homology
noun · 78% connection
The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Hydrazine
noun · 78% connection
Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Hydrocarbon
noun · 78% connection
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Interpolate
verb · 78% connection
To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
Ketol
noun · 78% connection
One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
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: technical, name, methyl, alcohol, wood.
