Ammoniac

Definitions: Ammoniac

Ammoniac

Adjective

1. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia.

Noun

1. The aromatic gum of the ammoniac plant.

Date "ammoniac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Ammoniac

Synonyms: ammoniacal (adj), gum ammoniac (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pungency	Mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning. (condiment); niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness) a; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) a.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ammoniac

English words defined with "ammoniac": Armoniac ♦ Gas water, gum ammoniac ♦ Iron cement ♦ Rust joint ♦ sal ammoniac, Sal Cyrenaicus, sal volatile, Salmiac, Salt of hartshorn. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ammoniac": salmiak. (references)

Etymologies containing "ammoniac": Ammonia. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ammoniac" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (ammonia).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	MEXICO	Products subject to these duties are listed in the March 2, 2001, edition of the Diario Oficial (Mexico's equivalent of the Federal Register) and include pork, beef, apples, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), liquid soda, hydrogen peroxide, ammoniac sulphate, gasoline additives, cristal polysterene, polycloride (PVC), bonded paper, corrugated rods, and unfinished steel tubes. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Ammoniac" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Ammoniac" is used about 5 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)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Expressions using "ammoniac": gum ammoniac ♦ sal ammoniac ♦ salt ammoniac. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "ammoniac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		amoniakor. (various references)

Arabic		‏نشادري. (various references)

Bulgarian		амонячен. (various references)

Chinese		氨草胶. (various references)

Czech		èpavkový. (various references)

Danish		ammoniumklorid (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), vandfri ammoniak (ammonia, anhydrous ammonia, anhydrous ammoniac), salmiak (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac). (various references)

Dutch		ammoniumchloride (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), ammoniakzout (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), ammoniakgas (ammonia, anhydrous ammonia, anhydrous ammoniac), ammoniak (ammonia, anhydrous ammonia, anhydrous ammoniac), salmiak (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac). (various references)

Farsi		امونیاکی , امونیاک . (various references)

Finnish		salmiakki (sal ammoniac). (various references)

French		ammoniaque (ammonia, ammonia liquor, ammonia solution, ammoniacal, ammonium hydrate, ammonium hydroxide, anhydrous ammonia dissolved in water, aqua ammonia). (various references)

German		Ammoniak (ammonia). (various references)

Greek		αμμωνιακόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		אמו� יק, אושק. (various references)

Hungarian		ammóniás. (various references)

Italian		ammoniaca anidra (ammonia, anhydrous ammonia, anhydrous ammoniac), cloruro d'ammonio (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), cloridrato d'ammonio (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac). (various references)

Korean		�"모니아 (Ammonia). (various references)

Manx		cloraid ammoyniu (sal ammoniac). (various references)

Pig Latin		ammoniacay

Portuguese		amoníaco (ammonia, ammonia liquor, ammonia solution, ammonium hydrate, ammonium hydroxide, anhydrous ammonia dissolved in water, aqua ammonia). (various references)

Romanian		de amoniu. (various references)

Russian		аммиачный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		amonijakov. (various references)

Spanish		amoníaco (ammonia, ammoniacal). (various references)

Swedish		ammoniak-. (various references)

Turkish		amonyak ile ilgili, amonyak (ammonia). (various references)

Ukranian		аміачний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ammoniac": ammoniacal, ammoniacs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ammoniac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahmovic, ammomia, ammoni, amoni, Amonia, amonnia, Amponsah, apmonia, manzonian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-m-m-n-o"
	-1 letter: ammonia, ammonic, manioca.
	-2 letters: ammino, anomic, caiman, camion, maniac, manioc.
	-3 letters: amain, amino, amnia, amnic, amnio, anima, comma, macon, mania, manic.
	-4 letters: amia, amin, ammo, anoa, cain, ciao, cion, coin, coma, coni, icon, imam, maim, main, mama, mana, mano, mica, mina, moan, momi, naoi, noma.
	-5 letters: aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, ani, cam, can, con.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-m-m-n-o"
	+1 letter: ammoniacs.
	+2 letters: ammoniacal, monomaniac.
	+3 letters: megalomanic, micromanage, monomaniacs, mythomaniac.
	+4 letters: megalomaniac, microanatomy, micromanaged, micromanager, micromanages, monodramatic, monomaniacal, mythomaniacs, nymphomaniac.
	+5 letters: accommodating, accommodation, accompaniment, communitarian, megalomaniacs, micromanagers, micromanaging, monogrammatic, nymphomaniacs.
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