Word Meanings - CARBOXIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.
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- PASS
passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - CARBONATATION
The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight. - OXYGENIZE
To oxidize. - HEATHER
Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym: - CARBONIDE
A carbide. - PASSOVER
A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at - PASSUS
A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit. - HEATHENISHNESS
The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne. - ELEMENTAL
1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. - ELEMENT
1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: - OXYGENATOR
An oxidizer. - OXYGENIC
Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen. - PASSIBILITY
The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill. - COMPOUNDER
A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power. - COMPOUNDABLE
That may be compounded. - HEATHENRY
1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations. - OBTAINABLE
Capable of being obtained. - UNSHEATHE
To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - MONOCARBONIC
Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid. - DEOXYGENATE
To deoxidize. - HYDROCARBON
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used. - SPORADICAL
Sporadic. - SURPASS
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip. - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - SUBCARBONIFEROUS
Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.