Word Meanings - SUPPURATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of suppurating. 2. The matter produced by suppuration; pus.

Related words: (words related to SUPPURATION)

• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• SUPPURATION
  1. The act or process of suppurating. 2. The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• SUPPURATIVE
  Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration. Suppurative fever , pyæmia.
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• SUPPURATE
  To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.
• PROCESS PLATE
  A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
• PROCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.
• MATTERY
  1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
• PROCESSIONER
  1. One who takes part in a procession. 2. A manual of processions; a processional. Fuller.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
• FLOTATION PROCESS
  A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• WELDON'S PROCESS
  A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.
• SMATTERER
  One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
• SUBJECT-MATTER
  The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
• THOMAS PROCESS
  See ABOVE