Word Meanings - HYGROPHANOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry.

Related words: (words related to HYGROPHANOUS)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• OPAQUENESS
  The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• OPAQUE
  1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance. 2. Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
• MOISTNESS
  The quality or state of being moist.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• DIAPHANOUS
  Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• STRUCTURE
  Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure. 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building
• MOISTLESS
  Without moisture; dry.
• MOISTY
  Moist.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• SEMIOPAQUE
  Half opaque; only half transparent.
• OVERMOISTURE
  Excess of moisture.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.