FLUORIDES

"FLUORIDES" is a plural of: fluoride.

Specialty Definition: FLUORIDES

Domain	Definition
Environment	Gaseous, solid, or dissolved compounds containing fluorine that result from industrial processes. Excessive amounts in food can lead to fluorosis. (references)
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Crosswords: FLUORIDES

English words defined with "FLUORIDES": cryolite ♦ Greenland spar ♦ Haloid ♦ Stannofluoride. (references)

Specialty definitions using "FLUORIDES": Designated Pollutant ♦ Fluorides, Topical, fluorinated compound, fluorinated species, fluorinated substance ♦ PEDIATRIC DENTIST, pedodontis, photochromic glass ♦ Tin Fluorides. (references)

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Commercial Usage: FLUORIDES

Domain	Title
Books	Clinical Uses of Fluorides: A State of the Art Conference on the Uses of Fluorides in Clinical Dentistry (reference) Continuing evaluation of the use of fluorides (reference) Effects of fluorides in animals (reference) Fluorides and dental fluorosis (reference) Production of yellow cake and uranium fluorides : proceedings of an advisory group meeting (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: FLUORIDES

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Fluorides are for all ages!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Non-Fiction Usage: FLUORIDES

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The research data on fluorides in water and dentifrices support their efficacy. (references)
		These strategies include application of fluorides, chlorhexidine, sealants, antimicrobials, salivary enhancers, and patient education. (references)
		Additionally, the use of topically applied fluorides and chlorhexidine mouth rinse has shown clinical benefit in the prevention and control of dental caries and plaque. (references)
Business		The oral health of the Australian population is influenced by age, exposure to fluorides, dietary patterns, preventive dental behaviors, smoking, alcohol consumption, stress, infection and immunity, access to and use of preventive and dental restorative services, and attitudes toward treatment preferences. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FLUORIDES

"FLUORIDES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "FLUORIDES" is used about 4 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 (plural)	75%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: FLUORIDES

Expression using "FLUORIDES": Tin Fluorides. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FLUORIDES

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
fluorides inorganic	15
fluorides	4
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Modern Translation: FLUORIDES

Language		Translations for "FLUORIDES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		udsendelse af fluorider til atmosfaeren hidroerer isaer fra foelgende typer fabrikationsprocesser : fremstilling af kunstgoedning, produktion af aluminium og visse former for staalproduktion (aluminium production and some forms of steel production, discharges of fluorides into the air have their major sources in the following types of industrial processes artificial fertilizer manufacture). (various references)

German		Fluoride. (various references)

Pig Latin		uoridesflay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FLUORIDES

Derivations
	Words ending with "FLUORIDES": tetrafluorides. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"FLUORIDES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: floride, flouride, fluorid, fluride, fulfords. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FLUORIDES"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "FLUORIDES" (pronounced fluh"rī'dz or flô"rī'dz)
4	-r ī' d z	overrides.
3	-ī' d z	azides, bromides, downsides, fratricides, fungicides, glucosides, herbicides, hillsides, homicides, insecticides, iodides, ironsides, landslides, mountainsides, oxides, peptides, pesticides, polysaccharides, roadsides, Silversides, suicides, tellurides, triglycerides.
4	-r ī' d z	overrides.
3	-ī' d z	azides, bromides, downsides, fratricides, fungicides, glucosides, herbicides, hillsides, homicides, insecticides, iodides, ironsides, landslides, mountainsides, oxides, peptides, pesticides, polysaccharides, roadsides, Silversides, suicides, tellurides, triglycerides.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: FLUORIDES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: fluoride, fluorids.
	-2 letters: direful, floured, fluorid, folders, lousier, ourself, refolds, soilure, soldier, solider, sulfide.
	-3 letters: dories, dorsel, douser, felids, fields, filers, filose, fiords, fliers, florid, flours, fluids, fluors, foiled, folder, fouled, fouler, furies, furled, fusile, idlers, ireful, lifers, lories, louder, louies, loured, loused, oilers, oldies, oriels, refold, reoils, resold, rifled, rifles, roiled, rolfed.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-l-o-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: flourished.
	+2 letters: fluoridates, outfielders.
	+3 letters: perfidiously.
	+4 letters: furazolidones, odoriferously, splendiferous.
	+5 letters: tetrafluorides.
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