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Definition: SULPHONIC |
SULPHONICAdjective1. Pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain aromatic bases (as benzene); as, phenyl sulphonic acid, C6H5.SO2.OH, a stable colorless crystalline substance. |
Crosswords: SULPHONIC |
| English words defined with "SULPHONIC": Alkali green ♦ Crocein ♦ Euthiochroic acid ♦ Methionic ♦ Phosphonic ♦ sulfonate, Sulphamic, Sulphanilic, Sulphindigotic, Sulphonate, Sulphonic group ♦ Tartrazine, Tropaeolin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SULPHONIC": Phosphonic. (references) |
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| "SULPHONIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SULPHONIC" is used about 14 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SULPHONIC": sulphonic acid ♦ sulphonic group. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "SULPHONIC": benzene-sulphonic acid. | |
| 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 |
acid exposed skin sulphonic | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SULPHONIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كبريتي (sulphite, sulphureous, sulphuric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sulfoneret fedtalkohol (fatty sulphonic alcohol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sulfozuur (sulphonic acid), sulfonzuurgroep (sulpho group, sulphonic acid group), sulfongroep (sulpho group, sulphonic acid group), sulfogroep (sulpho group, sulphonic acid group), gesulfoneerd vetalcohol (fatty sulphonic alcohol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sulfate (sulfate, sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sulfosaeuregruppe (sulpho group, sulphonic acid group), Sulfosaeure (sulphonic acid), Sulfonsaeuregruppe (sulpho group, sulphonic acid group), Sulfogruppe (sulpho group, sulphonic acid group), sulfierter Fettalkohol (fatty sulphonic alcohol), sulfatierter Fettalkohol (fatty sulphonic alcohol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σουλφονωμένη λιπαρή αλκοόλη (fatty sulphonic alcohol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'פרתי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kénes (sulphureous, sulphuretted, sulphurous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gruppo acido sulfonico (sulpho group, sulphonic acid group), alcole grasso solfonato (fatty sulphonic alcohol), acido sulfonico (sulphonic acid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 슬포. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulphonicsay álcool gordo sulfonado (fatty sulphonic alcohol). (various references) grupo sulfónico (sulpho group, sulphonic acid group), alcohol graso sulfonado (fatty sulphonic alcohol). (various references) sülfonik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "SULPHONIC" (pronounced 'Sul*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-i-l-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: chopins, cushion, insculp, oilcups, phonics, pulsion, sculpin, unclips, uncoils, upcoils, upsilon. | |
-3 letters: chinos, chopin, clonus, colins, consul, coulis, cousin, insoul, lupins, nicols, oilcup, phonic, piculs, pilous, poilus, polish, punish, schuln, siphon, slouch, unclip, uncoil, unship, upcoil. | |
-4 letters: chino, chins, chips, chops, cions, clips, clons, clops, coils, coins, colin, conus, coups, cuish, hilus, hocus. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-l-n-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: consulship. | |
+2 letters: consulships. | |
+3 letters: copublishing, nucleophiles, punchinellos. | |
+4 letters: counselorship, proconsulship. | |
+5 letters: consultantship, councillorship, counselorships, proconsulships, psycholinguist. | |
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