Word Meanings - INTRAMERCURIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.
Related words: (words related to INTRAMERCURIAL)
- VULCANO
A volcano. - VULCANOLOGY
The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc. - VULCANIZATION
The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure. - PLANETULE
A little planet. Conybeare. - PLANETED
Belonging to planets. Young. - PLANETOIDAL
Pertaining to a planetoid. - VULCANITE
Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur. - VULCANIAN
Volcanic. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals. Ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend. Macaulay. - VULCANISM
Volcanism. - VULCAN
The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephæstus. - VULCANICITY
Volcanicity. - PLANET
A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used - PLANETARIUM
An orrery. See Orrery. - BETWEEN
betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of - VULCANIST
A volcanist. - VULCANIZER
One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc. - PLANETOID
A body resembling a planet; an asteroid. - VULCAN POWDER
A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin , sodium nitrate , charcoal , and sulphur , used in mining and blasting. - PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne. - PLANETARY
Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton. 4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." Shak. 5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life." - INTERPLANETARY
Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle. - GO-BETWEEN
An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.