Word Meanings - LITHOPHOSPHORIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.

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• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• LITHOPHOSPHORIC
  Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• LITHOPHOSPHOR
  A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat.
• PHOSPHORIC
  1. Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous compounds. 2. Phosphorescent. "A phosphoric sea." Byron.
• PHOSPHORICAL
  Phosphoric.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• PARAPHOSPHORIC
  Pyrophosphoric.
• METAPHOSPHORIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.
• HYPOPHOSPHORIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid. Hypophosphoric acid , an acid, P2H4O6, produced by the slow oxidation of moist phosphorus, and isolated
• PYROPHOSPHORIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, H4P2O7, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance. Its salts are obtained by heating the phosphates.