Ichor

Definitions: Ichor

Ichor

Noun

1. (Greek mythology) the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.

2. A fluid product of inflammation.

Date "ichor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	ICHOR, n. A fluid that serves the gods and goddesses in place of blood. Fair Venus, speared by Diomed, Restrained the raging chief and said: "Behold, rash mortal, whom you've bled -- Your soul's stained white with ichorshed!" Mary Doke. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Literature	Ichor (I'-kor). The colourless blood of the heathen deities. (Greek, ichor, juice.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Medicine	The thin, acrid, watery fluid discharged from a sore or ulcer. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In Greek mythology, Ichor was a mineral that was present in the blood of the gods and helped keep them immortal. It was sometimes said to have been present in ambrosia and/or nectar. When a god was injured and bled, the Ichor made their blood poisonous to mortals.

Synonyms: Ichor

Synonyms: festering (n), purulence (n), pus (n), sanies (n), suppuration (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fluidity	Fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies; chyle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ichor

English words defined with "ichor": ichorous ♦ sanious. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ichor": Gods. (references)

Etymologies containing "ichor": Ichorhaemia. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ichor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (ichor), German (ichor).

Domain	Title
Music	Ichor (reference) Ichor [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Ichor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ichor" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ichor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ujth (sap), lëng plage. (various references)

Arabic		‏دم الآلهة. (various references)

Bulgarian		сукървица (sanies), кръвта на боговете. (various references)

Danish		ichor, sårsekret. (various references)

Dutch		ichor. (various references)

French		ichor. (various references)

German		ichor. (various references)

Greek		ιχωρώδες υγρό, το αίμα των θεών παρ' αρχαίουσ, ορρόσ αίματοσ, ίχωρ. (various references)

Hungarian		istenek vére. (various references)

Italian		icore, escrezione da ferita. (various references)

Manx		ingyr ghial, ingyr (corruption, pus, suppuration, whitlow). (various references)

Pig Latin		ichoray.(various references)

Portuguese		icor (ichthyoid), mangusto (mongoose). (various references)

Romanian		sângele zeilor, lichid asemãnãtor cu sângele. (various references)

Russian		сукровица (sanies), ихор. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sukrvica (sanies), božanska krv. (various references)

Spanish		icor, hondura (depth, lowness). (various references)

Swedish		var (be, case, each, every, matter, pus, var, was, were, where). (various references)

Turkish		irin (discharge, fester, issue, matter, purulence, purulent matter, pus, pyo-, suppuration), iltihap (discharge, fester, gathering, inflammation, issue, matter, purulence, purulent matter, pus, suppuration), cerahat (fester, matter, purulent matter, pus, sanies, suppuration). (various references)

Ukranian		сукровиця (sanies), іхор. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ichor": ichorous, ichors. (additional references)
	Words containing "ichor": clavichord, clavichordist, clavichordists, clavichords, harpsichord, harpsichordist, harpsichordists, harpsichords, hemichordate, hemichordates, terpsichorean. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ichor" (pronounced 'I"chor'): Disanchor, Unanchor. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: chiro, choir.
	Words within the letters "c-h-i-o-r"
	-1 letter: coir, rich.
	-2 letters: chi, cor, hic, ich, orc, rho, roc.
	-3 letters: hi, ho, oh, or.
	Words containing the letters "c-h-i-o-r"
	+1 letter: chiros, choirs, choric, coheir, heroic, ichors, orchid, orchil, orchis, orphic, rhodic, thoric.
	+2 letters: brioche, bronchi, chariot, cheerio, chicory, chloric, chlorid, chlorin, choicer, choired, chokier, choragi, choregi, choreic, chorial, chorine, choring, chorion, chorizo, choroid, chrisom, chromic, chronic, cochair, coheirs, haricot, heroics, hickory, isochor, microhm, morphic, ochring, ochroid, orchids, orchils, ostrich, pibroch, rhombic, rhonchi, trochil, trophic.
	+3 letters: achromic, acrolith, actorish, aircoach, anorthic, atrophic, bichrome, birrotch, botchier, brioches, bronchia, ceorlish, chariots, cheerios, chiccory, chickory, chloride, chlorids, chlorine, chlorins, chlorite, choirboy, choiring, choleric, choosier, choppier, choragic, chording, choreoid, choriamb, chorines, chorioid, chorions, chorizos, choroids, chrismon, chrisoms, chromide, chroming, chromite, chromium, chromize, chronics, clothier, cochairs, cohering, coinhere, corniche, cothurni, couthier, dichroic, enchoric, euphoric, hadronic, hairlock, haricots, harmonic, heroical, hidrotic, historic, hormonic, horrific, hydronic, hydropic, hyracoid, ichorous, inchworm, isochore, isochors, isochron, microhms, micromho, mouchoir, ochering, oligarch, omniarch, orchises, orchitic, orchitis, ornithic, orphical, orthicon, orthotic, overrich, pibrochs, poachier, pouchier, prochain, prochein, rhetoric, rhizomic, ricochet, roaching, rockfish, strophic, thoracic, torchier, torching, touchier, tovarich, trichoid, trichome, trochaic, trochili, trochils, trochoid, unheroic, whipcord, zorching.
	+4 letters: acroliths, ahistoric, anaphoric, anchoring, anchorite, antechoir, anthropic, arachnoid, archivolt, artichoke, bishopric, blotchier, broaching, bronchial, bronchium, chancroid, charbroil, charioted, chemisorb, cherimoya, chicories, chipboard, chirimoya, chiropody, chlorides, chlorines, chlorites, chloritic, chlorosis, chlorotic, choirboys, chondrite, choriambs, chorioids, chorionic, chorister, choroidal, chortling, chorusing, chrismons, chromatic, chromatid, chromatin, chromides, chromings, chromites, chromiums, chromized, chromizes, chronaxie, chronicle, cirrhoses, cirrhosis, cirrhotic, clothiers, cochaired, coheiress, coinhered, coinheres, copyright, corniches, coryphaei, coshering, courtship, crosshair, crouching, diachrony, dichondra, dichroism, dichromat, dimorphic, dowitcher, dysphoric, echiuroid, echovirus, eutrophic, grouchier, grouchily, grouching, haircloth, hairlocks, harmonica, harmonics, hectoring, heterotic, hickories, hidrotics, hippocras, holandric, holocrine, honorific, hyperopic, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hyracoids, inchworms, isochores, isochrone, isochrons, machzorim, microchip, microinch, microlith, micromhos, monarchic, monorchid, morphemic, mouchoirs, nephrotic, oligarchs, oligarchy, omniarchs, orthicons, orthoepic, orthotics, ostriches, overchill, parochial, pharaonic, pitchfork, plethoric, prophasic, prophetic, prothetic, radicchio, reechoing, rhapsodic, rhetorics, rhinoceri, rhyolitic, ricochets, scirrhous, scorching, slouchier, theoretic, threnodic, tochering, torchiers, torchiest, trichomes, trochaics, trochilus, trochoids, whipcords.
	+5 letters: achondrite, achromatic, acrophobia, aircoaches, amphoteric, anachronic, anamorphic, anchorites, anchoritic, anorthitic, antechoirs, antiheroic, aphoristic, arachnoids, archbishop, archegonia, archivolts, artichokes, bichromate, biographic, biomorphic, biospheric, bishoprics, botcheries, brachiator, brachiopod, bronchiole, bronchitic, bronchitis, bryophytic, cartoonish, cataphoric, censorship, chairwoman, chairwomen, chancroids, charbroils, charioteer, charioting, chemisorbs, cherimoyas, chiccories, chickories, chiffonier, chifforobe, childproof, chipboards, chirimoyas, chiromancy, chironomid, chirurgeon, chivalrous, chloramine, chlorinate, chlorinity, chondrites, chondritic, choppering, choreiform, choristers, chorussing, chowdering, chromaffin, chromatics, chromatids, chromatins, chromizing, chromophil, chronaxies, chronicity, chronicled, chronicler, chronicles, chrysolite, chrysotile, cirrhotics, clavichord, cochairing, cochairman, cochairmen, coinhering, coleorhiza, copyrights, countryish, courtships, crocheting, crosshairs, cryophilic, diachronic, dichlorvos, dichondras, dichroisms, dichromate, dichromats, doctorship, dowitchers, dystrophic, echinoderm, echiuroids, enharmonic, escharotic, exospheric, exothermic, factorship, franchisor, geographic, geomorphic, grouchiest, haircloths, harmonicas, hectoliter, helicopter, hematocrit, heroically, heroicomic, historical, histrionic, homoerotic, honorifics, humoristic, hydrologic, hydrolytic, hydroponic, hydrosolic, hydroxylic, hyperbolic, hypergolic, hypersonic, hypertonic, hypocorism, hypocrites, hypodermic, icosahedra, incoherent, inharmonic, isochronal, isochrones, isomorphic, logorrheic, machinator, maraschino, metaphoric, microchips, microfiche, micrograph, microliths, microphage, microphone, microphyll, monarchial, monarchies, monarchism, monarchist, monohydric, monorchids, morphactin, morphemics, mycorrhiza, nephrotics, nomarchies, octarchies, oligarchic, orchardist, orchidlike, orchitises, orographic, orphically, orthopedic, overchills, phosphoric, pictograph, pitchforks, pleochroic, pronephric, prophecies, prosthetic, pyrophoric, radicchios, rechoosing, reclothing, rectorship, retouching, rheostatic, rhetorical, rhinoceros, rhinoscopy, ricocheted, rockfishes, sarcophagi, schizocarp, schoolgirl, scrooching, seborrheic, sophomoric, spirochete, splotchier, stitchwort, switcheroo, synchronic, theocratic, thermionic, thiouracil, thrombotic, torchlight, tovariches, trichinous, trichocyst, trichogyne, trichology, trichotomy, trichromat, trimorphic, trochoidal, unactorish, vouchering, workaholic, xerophytic, zoomorphic.
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