Word Meanings - PARASITICIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything used to destroy parasites. Quain.

Related words: (words related to PARASITICIDE)

• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• QUAINT
  pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for 1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer. 2. Characterized
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• QUAINTISE
  1. Craft; subtlety; cunning. Chaucer. R. of Glouces. 2. Elegance; beauty. Chaucer.
• DESTROYER
  One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• QUAINTLY
  In a quaint manner. Shak.
• QUAINTNESS
  The quality of being quaint. Pope.
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• PREACQUAINT
  To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.
• ACQUAINTEDNESS
  State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. Boyle.
• ACQUAINTABLE
  Easy to be acquainted with; affable. Rom. of R.
• UNACQUAINTANCE
  The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.
• NONACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.
• ACQUAINTANT
  An acquaintance. Swift.
• ACQUAINT
  Acquainted.
• ACQUAINTANCESHIP
  A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.