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Definition: PHOSPHONIC |
PHOSPHONICAdjective1. Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid. |
Note: Phosphonic \Phos*phon"ic\, adjective. [Phosphoric sulphonic.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PHOSPHONIC" is a common misspelling or typo for: phosphoric. |
Crosswords: PHOSPHONIC |
| English words defined with "PHOSPHONIC": Phosphinic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PHOSPHONIC": Diphosphonates ♦ Phosphonic Acids, Phosphorous Acids. (references) |
Expression using "PHOSPHONIC": Phosphonic Acids. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
phosphonic acid | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PHOSPHONIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ホスホン酸 (electric carpet, hockey, hook, hook and eye, hopper, hot, hot balloon, hot corner, hot curler, hot dog, hot jazz, hot laboratory, hot line, hot money, hot news, hot potato, hot rod, hot spot, hot stand-by, hot war, hotcakes, hot-key, hotpants, hotplate, Hottentot, pancakes, paper fastener, phosphonic acid, stapler). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ホスホンさん (phosphonic acid). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | osphonicphay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "PHOSPHONIC" (pronounced 'Phos*phon"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-h-i-n-o-o-p-p-s" | |
-2 letters: phosphin. | |
-3 letters: chopins, honchos, opsonic, phonics, pocosin, ponchos, shippon. | |
-4 letters: chinos, chopin, cohosh, hippos, honcho, phonic, phonos, poison, poncho, popish, siphon. | |
-5 letters: chino, chins, chips, chops, cions, cohos, coins, coons, coops, hippo, hooch, hoops, icons, opsin, phono, phons, pinch, pions, pisco, pooch, poohs, poons, poops, scion, scoop, shoon, snoop, sonic, spoon. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-h-i-n-o-o-p-p-s" | |
+4 letters: phosphorescing. | |
+5 letters: morphophonemics, phosphocreatine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 4F 53 50 48 4F 4E 49 43 |
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