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A combining form, also used adjectively, indicating hydroxyl as an ingredient. Hydroxy acid , an organic acid, having (besides the hydroxyl group of the carboxyl radical) an alcoholic hydroxyl group, and thus having the qualities of an alcohol

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A combining form, also used adjectively, indicating hydroxyl as an ingredient. Hydroxy acid , an organic acid, having (besides the hydroxyl group of the carboxyl radical) an alcoholic hydroxyl group, and thus having the qualities of an alcohol in addition to its acid properties; as, lactic and tartaric acids are hydroxy acids.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• ALCOHOLIZATION
  1. The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. Johnson. 2. The act rectifying spirit. 3. Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.
• INDICATOR
  A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• INDICATIVELY
  In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• ALCOHOL
  A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol ; methyl forms methyl alcohol or wood spirit; amyl forms
• HYDROXYL
  A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc.
• HYDROXYLAMINE
  A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.
• ALCOHOLISM
  A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• TORSION INDICATOR
  An autographic torsion meter.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• VINDICATION
  The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of