Word Meanings - BISMUTHOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.
Related words: (words related to BISMUTHOUS)
- ELEMENTAL
1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. - ELEMENT
1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - LOWERY
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. - ELEMENTALITY
The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed. - VALENCE
The degree of combining power of an atom as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom - CONTAINANT
A container. - LOWER
1. Cloudiness; gloominess. 2. A frowning; sullenness. - ELEMENTALISM
The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers. - ELEMENTATION
Instruction in the elements or first principles. - ELEMENTOID
Resembling an element. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - LOWER-CASE
Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. - BISMUTHOUS
Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence. - CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains. - ELEMENTAR
Elementary. Skelton. - LOWERING
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. - ELEMENTARINESS
The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state. - BISMUTHAL
Containing bismuth. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - GLOBEFLOWER
A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus. - BALL-FLOWER
An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. - THREE-FLOWERED
Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.