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Word Meanings - HENDECANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CARBON STEEL
    Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • CARBONATATION
    The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
  • 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.
  • CARBONIDE
    A carbide.
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • CALL
    callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
  • SERIES MOTOR
    A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
  • CALLIOPE
    The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
  • CALLOT
    A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
  • CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
  • SERIES
    Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr.
  • CALLOSE
    Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
  • CALLIDITY
    Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
  • CARBONARISM
    The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
  • SERIES TURNS
    The turns in a series circuit.
  • CALLIGRAPHY
    Fair or elegant penmanship.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • MONOCARBONIC
    Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • PARABOLICALLY
    1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
  • STEREOGRAPHICALLY
    In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • ACRONYCALLY
    In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
  • DIAMETRICALLY
    In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
  • PHYSIOLOGICALLY
    In a physiological manner.
  • ETHNICALLY
    In an ethnical manner.

 

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