Word Meanings - ALVEOLAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ALVEOLAR)

• Concave
• Hollow
• scooped
• pitted
• excavated
• retreating
• alveolar

Related words: (words related to ALVEOLAR)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• PITTLE-PATTLE
  To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. Latimer.
• CONCAVED
  Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
• CONCAVE
  1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. 2. Hollow; void
• SCOOP
  A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. 4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake. 5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. 6. The act of scooping,
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• PITTED
  Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue. (more info) 1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• PITTA
  Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidæ. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are
• PITTACAL
  A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.
• HOLLOWLY
  Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.
• EXCAVATE
  To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.
• HOLLOW-HORNED
  Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.
• CONCAVENESS
  Hollowness; concavity.
• PITTER
  A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
• ALVEOLARY
  Alveolar.
• HOLLOWNESS
  1. State of being hollow. Bacon. 2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South.
• EXCAVATION
  1. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. 2. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation." Glover. An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from
• PITTER-PATTER
  A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a pattering of words.
• ALVEOLAR
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.
• SPITTLY
  Like spittle; slimy.
• LICK-SPITTLE
  An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.
• EUPITTONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
• SPITTER
  One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
• CONCAVO-CONCAVE
  Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.
• SPITTED
  1. Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit. 2. Shot out long; -- said of antlers. Bacon.
• PLANO-CONCAVE
  Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens.