Word Meanings - PITTACAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to PITTACAL)

• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• ORANGE
  Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.
• YELLOW
  1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome
• EUPITTONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• OXIDIZABLE
  Capable of being oxidized.
• YELLOWBILL
  The American scoter.
• ORANGEISM
  Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.
• ORANGEMAN
  One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.;
• YELLOWWOOD
  The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash ; the Australian Flindersia
• YELLOWHAMMER
  A common European finch . The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ORANGETAWNY
  Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.
• YELLOWLEGS
  Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
• OXIDIZER
  An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.
• INOXIDIZE
  To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• SEA ORANGE
  A large American holothurian having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• NAPLES YELLOW
  See YELLOW