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LACTONE

Definition: LACTONE

LACTONE

Noun

1. One of a series of organic compounds, regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: LACTONE

English words defined with "LACTONE": LactonicPhthalideSaccharone. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LACTONE": 2,3-Diketogulonic Acidacyl-homoserine lactone, Antibiotics, MacrolideBrefeldin ACardanolides, CardenolidesDehydroascorbatase, Dehydroascorbic AcidIvermectinMacrolidesOligomycinsSpirostans. (references)
Etymologies containing "LACTONE": Saccharone. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Lactone

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In chemistry, the condensation of an alcohol group and and a carboxylic acid group which are atached to the same molecule, leads to an cyclic ester. This cylclic esters are called lactone.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lactone."

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Commercial Usage: LACTONE

DomainTitle

Books

  • CRC Handbook of Antibiotic Compounds: Macrocyclic Lactone (Lactam Antibiotics) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expression: LACTONE

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "LACTONE": delta-lactone.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LACTONE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lactone

55

glucono delta lactone

8

butyl gamma lactone

2
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Modern Translations: LACTONE

Language Translations for "LACTONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

内酯. (various references)

   

Danish

  

lacton. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lacton. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

laktoni. (various references)

   

French

  

lactone. (various references)

   

German

  

Laktone. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λακτόνες. (various references)

   

Italian

  

lattone. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

actonelay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lactona. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lactona. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

laktoner. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LACTONE

Derivations

Words beginning with "LACTONE": lactones. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LACTONE"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LACTONE" (pronounced la"ktōn)
3-t ō nbrimstone, ketone.

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Anagrams: LACTONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-n-o-t"

-1 letter: cantle, cental, etalon, lancet, locate, octane, tolane.

-2 letters: alone, anole, atone, canoe, canto, cento, clean, cleat, clone, conte, cotan, eclat, enact, lance, laten, leant, lento, notal, oaten, ocean, octal, octan, talon, tolan, tonal.

-3 letters: acne, aeon, alec, aloe, alto, ante, calo, cane, cant, cate, celt, cent, clan, clon, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, colt, cone, cote, elan, enol, etna, lace, lane, late, lean, leno, lent, loan, loca, lone, lota, neat, noel, nota, note, olea, once, tace, taco, tael, talc, tale, teal, tela, toea, tola, tole, tone.

-4 letters: ace, act, ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, can, cat, cel, col, con, cot, eat, eon, eta, lac, lat, lea, let, lot, nae, net, not, oat, oca, ole, one, tae, tan, tao, tea, tel, ten, toe, ton.

-5 letters: ae, al, an, at, el, en, et, la, lo, na, ne, no, oe, on, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-n-o-t"
 

+1 letter: conepatl, conflate, covalent, ecotonal, falconet, lactones, octangle.

 

+2 letters: anecdotal, chelation, coastline, cobaltine, coeternal, cognately, conepatls, conflated, conflates, connately, constable, consulate, countable, decathlon, falconets, gluconate, inoculate, melanotic, nucleator, octangles, sectional, tolerance.

 

+3 letters: actinolite, actionable, actionless, adolescent, alpenstock, antipolice, cajolement, cantaloupe, chelations, chlorinate, citronella, coalescent, coastlines, cobaltines, coelacanth, coelentera, colemanite, complacent, conceptual, conciliate, congenital, conglobate, constables, consulates, contextual, conventual, corelating, covalently, covenantal, decathlons, documental, escalation, glauconite, gluconates, inchoately, inoculated, inoculates, inosculate, interlocal, laceration, lactogenic, lanceolate, lectionary, malcontent, melanocyte, neoplastic, noncentral, nonelastic, nonethical, noticeable, noticeably, novaculite, nucleation, nucleators, occidental, opalescent, outbalance, peculation, pleonastic, pratincole, relocating, relocation, sectionals, solacement, tolerances, ulceration.

 

+4 letters: accountable, acetylation, actinolites, adolescents, affectional, alpenstocks, altercation, amylopectin, anecdotally, anecdotical, anticyclone, antinucleon, bisectional, cajolements, cancelation, cantaloupes, captionless, cartoonlike, celebration, cephalothin, chlorinated, chlorinates, citronellal, citronellas, coelacanths, colemanites, coleopteran, colinearity, collectanea, concealment, conceptacle, conciliated, conciliates, condimental, confabulate, congealment, congelation, conglobated, conglobates, conjectural, conjugately, connectable, consolidate, constellate, construable, containable, contemplate, contestable, continental, contractile, conventuals, correlating, correlation, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, countervail, crenelation, crenulation, cupellation, cutaneously, deceptional, declamation, declaration, declination, decollating, decollation, defalcation, delectation, directional, educational, ejaculation, elicitation, elucidation, enucleation, equinoctial, escalations, exceptional, exclamation, exculpation, explication, genotypical, glauconites, granulocyte, hypocentral, inoculative, inosculated, inosculates, intercostal, intolerance, involucrate, lacerations, lycanthrope, malcontents, malediction, malefaction, melanocytes, metonymical, narcoleptic, nematocidal, neocortical, nomenclator, nonathletic, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, novaculites, nucleations, outbalanced, outbalances, peculations, percolating, percolation, plecopteran, pratincoles, radiolucent, reclamation, redactional, reductional, reinoculate, relocations, reluctation, replication, sansculotte, sectionally, solacements, speculation, tenaciously, tonetically, translocate, ulcerations, unallocated, uncataloged, uncountable, untouchable, valediction.

 

+5 letters: acceleration, acetonitrile, acetylations, adolescently, aeronautical, agranulocyte, altercations, amylopectins, anecdotalism, anecdotalist, anticyclones, antielectron, antinucleons, antiviolence, biotechnical, cancelations, cancellation, celebrations, cephalothins, citronellals, cladogenetic, coelenterate, coincidental, coleopterans, collinearity, commonalties, commonwealth, compellation, complacently, complemental, complexation, componential, concealments, concelebrant, concelebrate, conceptacles, conceptional, conceptually, conciliative, conduplicate, confabulated, confabulates, conferential, confidential, congealments, congelations, congeniality, congenitally, conglomerate, conglutinate, congratulate, connectional, consolidated, consolidates, constellated, constellates, consultative, consummately, contemplated, contemplates, contemplator, contextually, continentals, contractible, contrastable, controllable, convalescent, convectional, conventional, conventually, coordinately, correctional, correlations, cotyledonary, counterblast, counterclaim, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, counterrally, countervails, crenelations, crenellation, crenulations, creolization, cupellations, deceleration, dechlorinate, declamations, declarations, declinations, decollations, deescalation, defalcations, deglaciation, delectations, disconsolate, discountable, documentable, echolocation, edulcorating, ejaculations, elicitations, elocutionary, elucidations, elucubration, emasculation, endotracheal, enterococcal, entropically, enucleations, equinoctials, ethnological, excavational, exclamations, exculpations, explications, felicitation, fictionalise, fictionalize, geobotanical, geotechnical, granulocytes, iconolatries, inchoatively, incommutable, incompatible, incomputable, inflectional, inoperculate, intercoastal, intercostals, intervocalic, intolerances, kleptomaniac, laryngectomy, lectionaries, liquefaction, lycanthropes, malcontented, maledictions, malefactions, metronomical, monometallic, mononucleate, narcoleptics, neorealistic, neurotically, nomenclators, nomenclature, nonbacterial, nonidentical, nonnucleated, nonrealistic, nontechnical, nucleotidase, oblanceolate, occidentally, oceanologist, opalescently, organoleptic, outplacement, oxyacetylene, paleobotanic, perceptional, percolations, phenotypical, phonetically, photonuclear, pinealectomy, placentation, plainclothes, plecopterans, poeticalness, postulancies, precentorial, proconsulate, projectional, proteoglycan, reallocating, reallocation, reclamations, recreational, reescalation, reflectional, reinoculated, reinoculates, reluctations, replications, reticulation, retinotectal, sanctionable, sansculottes, sectionalism, speciational, speculations, sternocostal, technobabble, tectonically, translocated, translocates, trochanteral, unapologetic, uncomplacent, uncorrelated, uninoculated, unnoticeable, unrhetorical, untouchables, valedictions, vesiculation, zootechnical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LACTONE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 43 54 4F 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    -.-.    -    ---    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0043 0054 004F 004E 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46353754494839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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