All English words - page 2696

A cork model or figure.

A local anaesthetic, used especially for the eye.

A synthetic compound used as a painkilling and antipyretic drug.

A toy consisting of a disc or drum with figures representing a moving object in successive positions arranged radially on it, to be viewed in such a way (e.g., through a fixed slit) that the persistence of the successive visual images produces the impression of actual motion when the disc or drum is rapidly rotated.

Each of four isomeric quinones derived from phenanthrene which have the formula c₁₄ h₈ o₂ and are yellow or red crystalline solids.

Each of a number of isomeric, crystalline, heteroaromatic compounds having the formula c₁₂ h₈ n₂, whose molecules have a tricyclic phenanthrene ring system in which one ch group in each of the two outer rings is replaced by a nitrogen atom; especially (in full "1,10-phenanthroline"), the ortho isomer, which is used as an indicator for iron, with which it forms a red-orange complex.

A yellowish crystalline heteroaromatic compound, c₁₂ h₈ n₂, having a tricyclic molecule consisting of two benzene rings joined by two nitrogen atoms.

A semi-synthetic penicillin.

Designating or relating to the classification of organisms on the basis of their observed similarities and differences (often assessed in numerical terms), without reference to functional significance or evolutionary relationships; relating to or characteristic of phenetics.

A taxonomist who uses or advocates phenetic classification.

Each of three isomeric oily liquid amines having the formula (c₂ h₅ o)c₆ h₄ nh₂, which are ortho-, meta-, and para- amino derivatives of phenetole and are used in the manufacture of dyes.

Ethyl phenyl ether, c₂ h₅ oc₆ h₅, a volatile liquid with a fragrant odour.

A drug used in the oral treatment of diabetes mellitus (now largely withdrawn from use because of the side effect of lactic acidosis).

Of benzene or phenol; phenylic. rare except as in compounds.

A sympathomimetic agent with stimulant effects on the central nervous system similar to those of dexamphetamine, used chiefly as an appetite suppressant.

A narcotic and sedative barbiturate drug used chiefly to treat epilepsy.

A narcotic and sedative barbiturate drug used chiefly to treat epilepsy.

A local anaesthetic, used especially for the eye.

An antipyretic and analgesic drug related to phenacetin (no longer used because of toxicity).

An individual showing features characteristic of a genotype other than its own, but produced environmentally rather than genetically.

An individual showing features characteristic of a genotype other than its own, but produced environmentally rather than genetically.

A large or conspicuous crystal in a porphyritic rock, distinct from the groundmass.

= phenoxide .

To treat with a phenol, especially in order to sterilize or disinfect.

Phenological.