Word Meanings - SCANDIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium.
Related words: (words related to SCANDIA)
- EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - EARTH FLAX
A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. - EARTHDIN
An earthquake. - CHEMICAL
A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent. - EARTHSTAR
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores. - EARTHBRED
Low; grovelling; vulgar. - EARTHBANK
A bank or mound of earth. - EARTHQUAVE
An earthquake. - EARTHDRAKE
A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding. - EARTHNUT
A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut. - EARTHEN
Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe. - EARTH SHINE
See EARTH - EARTHMAD
The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland. - EARTHEN-HEARTED
Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell. - EARTHBOARD
The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard. - CHEMICALLY
According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation. - EARTHWORK
Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, - EARTHLINESS
The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness. - EARTHINESS
The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness. - EARTH-TONGUE
A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. - UNEARTHLY
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n. - IATROCHEMICAL
Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists. - SESQUIOXIDE
An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide. - CARBOXIDE
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. - PARADOXIDES
A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations. - SUPEROXIDE
See PEROXIDE - MIDDLE-EARTH
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak. - MICRO-CHEMICAL
Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test. - TETROXIDE
An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO.