Word Meanings - HYDROXYL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc.
Related words: (words related to HYDROXYL)
- CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - HYDROGENIUM
Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham. - OXYGENIZE
To oxidize. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - OXYGENATOR
An oxidizer. - OXYGENIC
Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen. - 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 - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - COMPOUNDABLE
That may be compounded. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - COMPOUND CONTROL
A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc. - RADICALNESS
Quality or state of being radical. - HYDROGEN
A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air , and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of - HYDROGENATE
To hydrogenize. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - OXYGENIUM
The technical name of oxygen. - CONSISTORY
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. - HYDROGENIDE
A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. See Hydride. - UNSATURATION
The quality or state of being unsaturated. - RADICALLY
1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior. - DEOXYGENATE
To deoxidize. - SPORADICAL
Sporadic. - EQUIRADICAL
Equally radical. Coleridge. - SUBGROUP
A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin. - DISOXYGENATE
To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize. - WENLOCK GROUP
The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire. - AGGROUPMENT
Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping. - INCONSISTENTLY
In an inconsistent manner.