ADIPOCERE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Oil	Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Specialty Definition: Adipocere

Adipocere or grave wax is the insoluble fatty acids left as residue from pre-existing fats from decomposing material such as a human cadaver. It is formed by the slow hydrolysis of fats in wet ground. It is generally believed to be first discovered by the Frenchmanman Fourcroy in the 18th century; however, Sir Thomas Browne describes this substance in his discourse, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial of 1658:

"In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap: wherof part remaineth with us."

Sources

J.S.Finch- 'A Doctor's life of Science and Faith' Princeton 1950
C.A.Patrides ed. Sir Thomas Browne The Major Works. Penguin 1977

Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADIPOCERE

Modern Translations: ADIPOCERE

Language		Translations for "ADIPOCERE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		adipocire, ligvoks. (various references)

Dutch		adipocire, adipocera, lijkevet, lijkenvet. (various references)

French		adipocire. (various references)

German		Adipocires, Adipocire, Leichenwachs, Leichenfett, Fettwachs. (various references)

Greek		αδιπόκηροσ. (various references)

Italian		adipocera, lipocera, grasso di cadavere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		屍蝋 (grave wax). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しろう (grave wax). (various references)

Pig Latin		adipocereay

Spanish		adipocira. (various references)

Turkish		adiposir, ceset çürürken oluşan amonyaklı sabun. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: ADIPOCERE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: recopied.
	-2 letters: capered, deciare, parodic, peracid, percoid, picador, pierced, precode, proceed.
	-3 letters: aeried, apiece, caried, carped, codeia, copied, copier, craped, creped, dearie, decare, deicer, diaper, dopier, ocreae, oreide, paired, pardee, pardie, peaced, perdie, pereia, period, picaro, pieced, piecer, pierce, priced, reaped, recipe, recode, redcap, rediae, repaid, roadie.
	-4 letters: acred, acrid, adore, aerie, aider, aired, arced, areic, aroid, cadre, caird, caped, caper, cared, carpi, cedar, ceder, cered, ceria, cider, coder, coped, coper, copra, cored, coria, crape, credo, creed, creep, crepe, cried, cripe, daric, deair, decor, deice, dicer, doper, drape, eared, eider, epode, erica, erode, irade, oared, ocrea, opera, oread, paced, pacer, padre, padri, pardi, pared, pareo, peace, pedro, perea, piece, podia, pored, preed, price, pride, pried, raced, radio, raped, rapid, recap, redia, redip, riced, riped, roped.
	-5 letters: aced, acid, acre, aero, aide, aped, aper, apod, arco, arid, cade, cadi, caid, cape, capo, card, care, carp, cede, cedi, cepe, cere, cero, ciao, cire, coda, code, coed, coir, cope, cord, core, crap, crop, dace, dare, dear, deco, deep, deer, dere, dice, dire, doer, dopa, dope, dore, dorp, dree, drip, drop, eide, epic, iced, idea, ired, odea, odic, oped, orad, orca, pace, padi, paid, pair, pard, pare, pear, peed, peer, peri, pica, pice, pied, pier, pore, prao, pree, proa, prod, race, raid, rape, read, reap, rede, redo, reed, repo, rice, ride, ripe, road, rode, rope.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-o-p-r"
	+2 letters: deprecation, depreciator.
	+3 letters: deprecations, depreciation, depreciators, depreciatory, deuteranopic, precautioned, predominance, propaedeutic, reciprocated.
	+4 letters: cephaloridine, decrepitation, deprecatorily, depreciations, intercompared, porcelainized, predominances, propaedeutics.
	+5 letters: aperiodicities, cephaloridines, cyproheptadine, decrepitations, hydrocephalies, predominancies, reincorporated.
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