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Definition: FLUORENE |
FLUORENENoun1. A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | An organic compound formed through the burning of pyritous shale in Bohemia, former Czechoslovakia. Later renamed kratochvilite. (references) |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fluorene | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "FLUORENE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | fluoreen. (various references) | |
French | fluorène. (various references) | |
German | Fluoren. (various references) | |
Greek | φλουορένιο. (various references) | |
Italian | fluorene. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uoreneflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fluoreno. (various references) | |
Spanish | fluoreno. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FLUORENE": fluorenes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "FLUORENE" (pronounced 'Flu`or*ene'): Abietene, Acetylene, Advene, Aliene, Allylene, Alpigene, Amphigene, Amylene, Antenicene, Anthracene, Arrasene, Azobenzene, Benzene, Butylene, Cadene, Cajuputene, Cannabene, Carene, Carvene, Cedrene, Cerotene, Cetene, Chrysene, Colophene, Contravene, Conylene, Coryphene, Cottolene, Crotonylene, Cumene, Cymene, Cymogene, Decene, Durene, Fluoranthene, gasolene, Hellene, Homogene, indigene, kerosene, Leucoxene, Megasthene, Meiocene, Melene, Menthene, Mesitylene, methylene, Microsthene, Mimetene, Miocene. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-n-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: ferule, fouler, fueler, refuel, unfree, unreel. | |
-3 letters: enrol, enure, felon, fleer, flour, fluor, leone, loner, nerol, refel, rouen. | |
-4 letters: enol, erne, euro, feel, fere, fern, flee, floe, flue, fore, foul, four, free, froe, fuel, furl, leer, leno, lone, lore, lorn, lour, lune, lure, noel, nurl, orle, reef, reel, role, rolf, roue, rule, rune. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: fluorenes. | |
+2 letters: floundered. | |
+3 letters: fluegelhorn, fluorescein, fluorescent. | |
+4 letters: fluegelhorns, fluoresceins, fluorescence, fluorescents, forcefulness, seleniferous, unremorseful. | |
+5 letters: effortfulness, fluorescences, forgetfulness, fortuneteller, nickeliferous, nonrefundable, reposefulness, splendiferous, unenforceable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unperformable, wonderfulness. | |
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