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Adipic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Chloral
noun · 78% connection
A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcoho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
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: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Doeglic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Erucic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
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: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Glyceride
noun · 78% connection
an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils; "fresh fats contain glycerides of fatty acids and v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Glycerine
noun · 78% connection
An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Hircic
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to wh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Isethionic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid, HO.C2H4.SO3H, obtained as an oily or crystalline substance, by the action of sul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Lipic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Metantimonic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Metaphosphoric
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crysta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Nitroform
noun · 78% connection
A nitro derivative of methane, analogous to chloroform, obtained as a colorless oily or crystalline substance, CH.(NO2)3, quite explos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Oenanthol
noun · 78% connection
An oily substance obtained by the distillation of castor oil, recognized as the aldehyde of oenanthylic acid, and hence called also oe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Oleic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Oleone
noun · 78% connection
An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
Palmin
noun · 78% connection
A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, fatty, acid, analogous.
