All English words - page 189

Meanings of Alkalis:

noun

A compound with particular chemical properties including turning litmus blue and neutralizing or effervescing with acids; typically, a caustic or corrosive substance of this kind such as lime or soda.

Usage examples:

Flint is not subject to chemical weathering except by strong alkalis

Meanings of Alkalise:

verb

Treat with alkali.

Usage examples:

Some workers find it unnecessary to alkalize samples

Meanings of Alkalised:

verb

Treat with alkali.

Usage examples:

Some workers find it unnecessary to alkalize samples

adjective

Treated with alkali.

Usage examples:

True bagels are shaped by hand and boiled in alkalized water

Meanings of Alkalises:

verb

Treat with alkali.

Usage examples:

Some workers find it unnecessary to alkalize samples

Meanings of Alkalising:

verb

Treat with alkali.

Usage examples:

Some workers find it unnecessary to alkalize samples

Meanings of Alkalizate:

adjective

Alkaline; alkalized.

Meanings of Alkalize:

verb

Treat with alkali.

Usage examples:

Some workers find it unnecessary to alkalize samples

Meanings of Alkalized:

adjective

Treated with alkali.

Usage examples:

True bagels are shaped by hand and boiled in alkalized water

verb

Treat with alkali.

Usage examples:

Some workers find it unnecessary to alkalize samples

Meanings of Alkalizes:

verb

Treat with alkali.

Usage examples:

Some workers find it unnecessary to alkalize samples

Meanings of Alkalizing:

verb

Treat with alkali.

Usage examples:

Some workers find it unnecessary to alkalize samples

Meanings of Alkaloid:

noun

Any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds of plant origin which have pronounced physiological actions on humans. they include many drugs (morphine, quinine) and poisons (atropine, strychnine).

Usage examples:

Other important alkaloids are caffeine, ricinine, and quinine.

Meanings of Alkaloidal:

adjective

Of the nature of an alkaloid; of or relating to alkaloids.

Meanings of Alkaloids:

noun

Any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds of plant origin which have pronounced physiological actions on humans. they include many drugs (morphine, quinine) and poisons (atropine, strychnine).

Usage examples:

Other important alkaloids are caffeine, ricinine, and quinine.

Meanings of Alkalosis:

noun

An excessively alkaline condition of the body fluids or tissues, which may cause weakness or cramp.

Usage examples:

These data suggest that hypocapnic but not metabolic alkalosis impairs alveolar fluid reabsorption.

Meanings of Alkamine:

noun

An organic compound containing both an alcohol (—oh) and an amino (—nh₂) functional group.

Meanings of Alkane:

noun

Any of the series of saturated hydrocarbons including methane, ethane, propane, and higher members.

Usage examples:

This method of production is still used although oxidation of methane, pyrolysis of alkanes, and cr…

Meanings of Alkanes:

noun

Any of the series of saturated hydrocarbons including methane, ethane, propane, and higher members.

Usage examples:

This method of production is still used although oxidation of methane, pyrolysis of alkanes, and cr…

Meanings of Alkanet:

noun

A eurasian plant of the borage family, typically having a hairy stem and blue flowers.

Usage examples:

Old english names are (dyer's) alkanet and orcanet.

Meanings of Alkanethiol:

noun

Any of a series of compounds containing a thiol group (—sh) bonded to an alkyl group.

Meanings of Alkanets:

noun

A eurasian plant of the borage family, typically having a hairy stem and blue flowers.

Usage examples:

Old english names are (dyer's) alkanet and orcanet.

Meanings of Alkanna:

noun

Alkanet, alkanna tinctoria, a southern european plant with a root which is used to produce a red dye; the root of this plant or the dye (or other extract) itself. occasionally also: any of various other plants of the genus alkanna. compare "alkanet", 2.

Meanings of Alkannin:

noun

A red colouring matter obtained from the root of certain plants of the family boraginaceae, especially alkanet (alkanna tinctoria), and used as a food colouring and in cosmetics.

Meanings of Alkanol:

noun

An aliphatic alcohol, considered as a substituted alkane; especially any of the series of monohydric alcohols having the formula r—oh, where r is an alkyl group.

Meanings of Alkapton:

noun

An acidic substance, later identified with homogentisic acid, which is excreted by people with alkaptonuria and causes their urine, left standing, to turn dark through oxidation.

Meanings of Alkaptonuria:

noun

The presence of homogentisic acid (alkapton) in the urine; an inherited (autosomal recessive) metabolic disorder characterized by this, and by ochronosis and arthritis, especially of the spine.