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.
Acrolein
noun · 78% connection
A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Aldehyde
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Alewife
noun · 78% connection
A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Alkalescency
noun · 78% connection
A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Alkalization
noun · 78% connection
The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Artemia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Basic
adjective · 78% connection
Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Bloater
noun · 78% connection
The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Brine
verb · 78% connection
To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Briny
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Britt
noun · 78% connection
The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
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: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Chlorobenzene
noun · 78% connection
a colorless volatile flammable liquid with an almond odor that is made from chlorine and benzene; used as a solvent and in the product…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Chloroform
noun · 78% connection
A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alka…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Chlorpicrin
noun · 78% connection
A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Colorless
adjective · 78% connection
Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorles…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Cyanogen
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.
Cymene
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, alkaline, liquid, obtained.