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PHOSPHONIC

Definition: PHOSPHONIC

PHOSPHONIC

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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": DiphosphonatesPhosphonic Acids, Phosphorous Acids. (references)

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Expression: PHOSPHONIC

Expression using "PHOSPHONIC": Phosphonic Acids. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHOSPHONIC

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

  phosphonic acid

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: PHOSPHONIC

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PHOSPHONIC"

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)

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Anagrams: PHOSPHONIC

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PHOSPHONIC


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

50 48 4F 53 50 48 4F 4E 49 43

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)

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

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Bibliographic Items: "PHOSPHONIC"


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