Word Meanings - ORTHOCARBONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Designating a complex ether, C. 4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid,

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• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• ETHERIFORM
  Having the form of ether.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ETHERIN
  A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• ETHERIZATION
  The administration of ether to produce insensibility. The state of the system under the influence of ether.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• ETHEREAL
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It
• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BELIEVING
  That believes; having belief. -- Be*liev"ing*ly, adv.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• COMPLEXUS
  A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• NORMAL
  According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal. (more info) square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Gr. normal. See Known, and 1. According to an established norm, rule,
• LIQUIDIZE
  To render liquid.
• AETHER
  See ETHER
• MONOCARBONIC
  Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
• TELETHERMOGRAPH
  A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station. An instrument, usually electrical, making such records.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• SULPHOCARBONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.
• NETHER
  Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.