Deliquescent

Definition: Deliquescent

Deliquescent

Adjective

1. (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

Date "deliquescent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Deliquescent

Domain	Definitions
Mining	Capable of becoming liquid by the absorption of moisture from the air;e.g., calcium chloride crystals. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Deliquescent

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Liquefaction	Adjective: liquefied. Verb:, liquescent, liquefiable; deliquescent, soluble, colliquative.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Deliquescent

English words defined with "deliquescent": Butter of zinc ♦ Cacodylic acid, calcium chloride, calcium nitrate, Chili salpeter, Citraconic acid ♦ Glyoxal ♦ Paraconic, Phenose ♦ Sulphine, Sulphocyanic ♦ Tartralic, Tartrelic, Taurocholic ♦ Vernonin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "deliquescent": E501 ♦ ferric chloride ♦ iron chloride ♦ nonhardening salt ♦ scacchite. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Deliquescent

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
deliquescent	4
deliquescent dryers	2
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Modern Translations: Deliquescent

Language		Translations for "deliquescent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i lëngëzueshëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏مائع (delitescent, fluid, liquid, running, runny, yielding). (various references)

Bulgarian		силно разклонен, който се втечнява. (various references)

Chinese		潮解性. (various references)

Danish		vandsugende (hygroscopic), hygroskopisk (hygroscopic), henflydende. (various references)

Dutch		vervloeiend, hygroscopisch (hygroscopic), hygrofiel. (various references)

French		déliquescent. (various references)

German		zerschmolzen. (various references)

Greek		υγροσκοπικός (hygroscopic), ευπαθές στην υγρασία, διαρρέων (leaky). (various references)

Hungarian		szétfolyó (diffluent, rambling). (various references)

Italian		deliquescente. (various references)

Manx		tashlagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		eliquescentday

Portuguese		deliquescente. (various references)

Russian		растворяющийся (liquescent). (various references)

Spanish		delicuescente. (various references)

Ukranian		спітнілий, розчинний (dissoluble, dissolvable, resoluble, soluble, solvable), розпливчастий (blurred, flabby, indistinct, loose, nebulous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Deliquescent"

Words rhyming with "deliquescent" (pronounced 'Del`i*ques"cent'): Acaulescent, Accrescent, Acquiescent, Adducent, Adipescent, Adnascent, Albescent, Alkalescent, Arborescent, Candescent, Canescent, Caulescent, Cerulescent, Cinerescent, Circumjacent, Coalescent, Complacent, Conducent, Connascent, Contabescent, Decent, Dehiscent, Delitescent, Depascent, Docent, Effervescent, Efflorescent, Enascent, Equicrescent, Erubescent, -escent, Evanescent, Excandescent, Excrescent, Exercent, Fervescent, Flavescent, Florescent, fluorescent, Fremescent, Frutescent, Gangrenescent, Glaucescent, Herbescent, ignescent, Inacquiescent, Incalescent, incandescent, Incanescent, Increscent, indecent, indehiscent, Ineffervescent, Interjacent, Interlucent, Intumescent, iridescent, Jacent, Juvenescent, Lactescent, Latescent, liquescent, lucent, Lutescent, Maledicent, Manuducent, Marcescent, Maturescent, Nascent, Nigrescent, Obsolescent, Opalescent, Papescent, Petrescent, Phosphorescent, Photoluminescent, Precent, Producent, Pubescent, Putrescent, Rancescent, recent, Recrudescent, Reducent, Rejuvenescent, Relucent, renascent, Revalescent, Reviviscent, Rigescent, Rubescent, Rufescent, Self-complacent, Semitranslucent, senescent, Spinescent, Spinulescent, Spumescent, subjacent, Subnascent, Subtranslucent, suffrutescent, Sugescent, Supercrescent, superjacent, Tabescent, Toppescent, Traducent, Tralucent, translucent, tumescent, Turgescent, Undecent, Violascent, Violescent, Virescent, Viridescent, Vitrescent. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Deliquescent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-l-n-q-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: deliquesce, liquescent, queenliest, unselected.
	-3 letters: denticles, inductees, queenside, quiescent, quietened, sequenced, stenciled, unelected, unsteeled.
	-4 letters: centiles, cutlines, declines, denticle, deselect, detinues, diluents, enlisted, enlistee, esculent, includes, inductee, insulted, leucines, leucites, licensed, licensee, linecuts, listened, neediest, nuclides, quietens, selected, selenide, selenite, sequence, sequined, silenced, squinted, tinseled, tunicles, unlisted, unsliced.
	-5 letters: celeste, centile, cinques, clients, cliqued, cliques, cutesie, cutline, deceits, deciles, decline, deletes, delicts, dentils, descent, destine, detinue, diluent, dilutes, ductile, duelist, dulcets, dunites, eeliest, elected, eluents, endites, enisled, ensiled, enticed, entices, equines, equites, eustele, include, incudes, incused, induces, inducts, indults, inquest, lectins, leucine, leucins, leucite, license, licente, linecut, linseed, lisente, luetics, luniest, luteins, needles, nestled, nuclide, queened, quested, quieted, quieten, quilted, quinces, quintes, scented, seclude, sectile, selenic, sequent, setline, silence, sleeted, sluiced, steeled, steelie, stelene, stencil, teledus, tensile, tunicle, unsteel, utensil.
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