Word Meanings - SANDPAPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

Related words: (words related to SANDPAPER)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• GLUTARIC
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers. Glutaric acid, an organic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; -- called also normal pyrotartaric acid.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• GLUCOSIDE
  One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste,
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• GLUCOGEN
  See GLYCOGEN
• GLUMNESS
  Moodiness; sullenness.
• GLUTTONY
  Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• GLUCOGENESIS
  Glycogenesis.
• GLUMLY
  In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• GLUTINATIVE
  Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
• GLUMACEOUS
  Having glumes; consisting of glumes.
• GLUTINOSITY
  The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• GLUCOSE
  Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc. 3. The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• CONGLUTINATION
  A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union. Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.