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Word Meanings - MANNITAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.

Related words: (words related to MANNITAN)

  • WHITECAP
    The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • WHITE FLY
    Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
  • WHITESTER
    A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • WHITESIDE
    The golden-eye.
  • SUBSTANCE
    To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
  • WHITE-EAR
    The wheatear.
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • WHITEWING
    The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
  • WHITEWALL
    The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
  • WHITE MUSTARD
    A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
  • WHITE-WATER
    A dangerous disease of sheep.
  • OBTAINABLE
    Capable of being obtained.
  • PARTIALISM
    Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
  • WHITETHROAT
    Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
  • DEHYDRATION
    The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
  • WHITEBILL
    The American coot.
  • PARTIALITY
    1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
  • WHITE-EYE
    Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and
  • HEPPELWHITE
    Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
  • SEMICRYSTALLINE
    Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
  • REOBTAINABLE
    That may be reobtained.
  • HYPOCRYSTALLINE
    Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
  • MICROCRYSTALLINE
    Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
  • PHASEOMANNITE
    See INOSITE

 

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