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Definition: Mercurial |
MercurialAdjective1. Liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next". 2. Relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury; "the Mercurial canals". 3. Relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; "more than Mercurial thievishness". 4. Relating to or containing or caused by mercury; "mercurial preparations"; "mercurial sore mouth". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mercurial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1610. (references) |
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Literature | Mercurial Light-hearted and gay, like those born under the planet Mercury. (Astrological notion.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Mercury, also called quicksilver, is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. A heavy, silvery, toxic, transition metal, mercury is one of only two elements that are liquid at everyday temperature (the other is Bromine) and is used in thermometers, barometers and other scientific apparatus. Mercury is mostly obtained by reduction from the mineral cinnabar.
General Name, Symbol, Number Mercury, Hg, 80 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12 (IIB), 6 , d Density, Hardness 13579.04 kg/m3, 1.5 Appearance Silvery white Atomic Properties Atomic weight 200.59 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 150 (171) pm Covalent radius 149 pm van der Waals radius 155 pm Electron configuration [Xe]44f14 5d10 6s2 e- 's per energy level 2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 2 Oxidation states (Oxide) 2, 1 (mildly basic) Crystal structure Rhombohedral Physical Properties State of matter Liquid (__) Melting point 234.32 K (-37.89 °F) Boiling point 629.88 K (674.11 °F) Molar volume 14.09 ×1010-3 m3/mol Heat of vaporization 59.229 kJ/mol Heat of fusion 2.295 kJ/mol Vapor pressure 0.0002 Pa at 234 K Speed of sound 1407 m/s at 293.15 K Miscellaneous Electronegativity 2.00 (Pauling scale) Specific heat capacity 140 J/(kg*K) Electrical conductivity 1.04 106/m ohm Thermal conductivity 8.34 W/(m*K) 1st ionization potential 1007.1 kJ/mol 2nd ionization potential 1810 kJ/mol 3rd ionization potential 3300 kJ/mol Most Stable Isotopes
iso NA half-life DM DE MeV DP 194Hg {syn.} 444 y &epsilon 0.040 194Au 196Hg 0.15% Hg is stable with 116 neutrons 198Hg 9.97% Hg is stable with 118 neutrons 199Hg 16.87% Hg is stable with 119 neutrons 200Hg 23.1% Hg is stable with 120 neutrons 201Hg 13.18% Hg is stable with 121 neutrons 202Hg 29.86% Hg is stable with 122 neutrons 204Hg 6.87% Hg is stable with 124 neutrons SI units & STP are used except where noted.
Notable Characteristics
Mercury is a heavy, silvery-white univalent and bivalent transition metal that is a relatively poor conductor of heat but a decent conductor of electricity and is the only common metal that is liquid at room temperature (forming an opaque glistening liquid).Mercury easily forms alloys with almost all common metals, including gold and silver but not iron. Any of these alloys is called an amalgam.
The freezing point of mercury is -40 ° Celsius which is the same as -40 ° Fahrenheit. This is the only point at which these two temperature scales coincide.
This metal also has uniform volumetric thermal expansion, is less reactive than zinc and cadmium and does not displace hydrogen from acids. Common oxidation states of this element are; mercurous, or +1, and mercuric, or +2. Rare instances of +3 mercury compounds exist.
Applications
Most mercury is used for the manufacture of industrial chemicals and for electrical and electronic applications. In addition, mercury is widely used in thermometers, especially ones which are used to measure high temperatures. Other uses;Miscellaneous uses; mercury switches, pesticides, dental amalgams/preparations, mercury cells for caustic soda and chlorine production, anti-fouling paint, electrode in some types of electrolysis, batteries (mercury cells), and catalysts.
- The ease with which it forms amalgams with gold has resulted in its use in gold recovery from ores.
- In addition to thermometers, mercury is used in barometers, diffusion pumps, and many other laboratory instruments.
- The triple point of mercury, -38.8344 °C, is a fixed point used as a temperature standard for the International Temperature Scale (ITS-90).
- Gaseous mercury is used in mercury-vapor lamps and advertising signs.
History
Mercury was known to the ancient Chinese and Hindus and was found in Egyptian tombs that date from 1500s BC. By 500 BC it was used to make amalgams with other metals. The ancient Greekss used this toxic metal in ointments and the Romans used it in cosmetics. Alchemists thought it to be the stuff from which all matter was formed and they also thought that when it hardened it turned into gold.In the 18th and 19th centuries, mercury nitrate was used to remove fur from the animal skins from which felt hats were made. This caused many cases of brain damage among hatters, or milliners, leading, it is claimed, to the simile "as mad as a hatter", and thereby to the Mad Hatter of Alice in Wonderland fame.
It was named by alchemists after the Roman god Mercury. Its symbol Hg comes from hydrargyrum, a Latinised form of the Greek word hydrargyros, which was a compound word whose Greek roots meant 'water' and 'silver'. Mercury is one of the few elements that has an alchemical symbol. If you have the right browser and font to support Unicode, you should see the symbol here: ☿.
Occurrence
A rare element in the earth's crust, mercury is found either as a native metal (rare) or in cinnabar, corderoite, livingstonite, and other minerals with cinnabar (HgS) being the most common ore. Approximately 50% of the global supply comes from Spain and Italy with much of the rest coming from Yugoslavia, Russia, and North America. The metal is extracted by heating cinnabar in a current of air and by condensing the vapor.Compounds
The most important salts are:Organic mercury compoundss are also important. Laboratory test have found that electrical discharge causes the noble gases neon, argon, krypton, and xenon to combine with mercury vapor. The products of this combination are held together with van der Waals forces and result in HgNe, HgAr, HgKr, and HgXe. Methyl mercury is a dangerous compound that is widely found as a pollutant in water bodies and streams.
- mercury chloride (which is very corrosive, sublimates and is a violent poison)
- mercurous chloride (which is calomel and is sometimes still used in medicine)
- mercury fulminate, (a detonator widely used in explosives), and
- mercuric sulfide (used to make vermilion which is a high-grade paint pigment).
Isotopes
There are seven stable isotopes of mercury with Hg-202 being the most abundant (26.86%). The longest-lived radioisotopes are Hg-194 with a half-life of 444 years, and Hg-203 with a half-life of 46.612 days. Most of the remaining radioisotopes have half-lifes that are less than a day.Precautions
Mercury is highly toxic in both liquid and gaseous forms. This is a toxic heavy metal that causes brain and liver damage if it is ingested. For this reason, thermometers which are only intended to measure typical climatic temperatures now use pigmented alcohol instead; the boiling point of alcohol is higher than any natural temperature expected on Earth. Some medical thermometers still use mercury, for reason of accuracy. Care must be exercised not to bite such a thermometer. The commercial unit for handling mercury is the "flask," which weighs 76 lb.Mercury is a very dangerous bioaccumulative toxin that is easily absorbed through skin, respiratory and gastrointestinal tissues. Minamata disease is a form of mercury poisoning. Mercury attacks the central nervous system and adversely affects the mouth, gums, and teeth. High exposure over long periods of time will result in brain damage and ultimately death. Air saturated with mercury vapor at room temperature is at a concentration many times the toxic level, despite the high boiling point (the danger is increased at higher temperatures). Mercury should therefore be handled with great care. Containers of mercury need to be covered securely to avoid spillage and evaporation. Heating of mercury or mercury compounds should always be done under a well-ventilated hood; some oxides in particular can decompose into elemental mercury, which immediately evaporates and may not be obvious.
External Links
- WebElements.com - Mercury
- EnvironmentalChemistry.com - Mercury
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mercury (element)."
Synonyms: MercurialSynonyms: erratic (adj), fickle (adj), quicksilver(a) (adj). (additional references) |
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Excitability | Unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy; chafing; Verb: |
Motion | Adjective: moving; Verb: in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless; (changeable); nomadic; erratic. |
Velocity | Adjective: fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active; flying, galloping; Verb: light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow; Noun: quick as lightning; Noun: quick as a thought. |
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Crosswords: Mercurial |
| English words defined with "mercurial": Blue ointment ♦ Citrine ointment, Compensation pendulum ♦ merbromine, Mercurially, Mercurochrome ♦ Quicksilver horizon ♦ Steam gauge. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mercurial": alkyl mercury, alkylmercury ♦ Chlormerodrin ♦ electronics technician ♦ fire-heavy ♦ Mercurial Finger, mercurial stomatitis, Mercury, METEOROLOGICAL-EQUIPMENT REPAIRER ♦ p-Chloromercuribenzoic Acid. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mercurial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (mercurial, mercury), Spanish (mercurial). |
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 | Waver; changeful; fluctuating; fluid; inconstant; indecisive; irregular; irresolute; irresponsible; kaleidoscopic; mercurial; mobile; movable; mutable; permutable; protean; restless; reversible; revocable; shifting; skittish; spasmodic; transformable; tra. |
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| "Mercurial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.92% of the time. "Mercurial" is used about 96 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) | 97.92% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
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Expressions using "mercurial": Hepatic mercurial ore ♦ mercurial air pump ♦ mercurial ointment ♦ mercurial poisoning ♦ mercurial ptyalism ♦ mercurial steam gauge ♦ mercurial stomatitis ♦ mercurial tremour. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "mercurial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i zhivës, i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, hasty, imminent, prompt, quick, rapid, smart, spanking, speedy, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed), i ndryshueshëm (alterable, changeable, changeful, fickle, flexible, inconstant, labile, mobile, movable, mutable, protean, shifting, transitional, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, various, varying, vertiginous), i hedhur (active, alive, castaway, energetic, frisky, refuse, skittish), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
Arabic | متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), زئبقي (quicksilver), عطاردي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | находчив (adroit, clever, ingenious, inventive, quick-witted, ready-witted, resourceful, shifty, smart), живачен препарат, живачен, жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), променчив (fickle, mutable, variable), причинен от живак, подобен на живак. (various references) | |
Czech | živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
Danish | tremor mercurialis (hatter's shakes, hatter's tremours, hatters'shakes, hatters'tremour, mercurial tremour, shakes, tetanus mercurialis), ptyalismus (mercurial ptyalism, salivation disease), kviksoelvstomatit (mercurial stomatitis), kviksoelvforgiftning (hydrargyrosis, mercurial poisoning, mercurialism, mercury poisoning), kviksoelv-colitis (mercurial colitis), hydrargyri (hydrargyrosis, mercurial poisoning, mercurialism, mercury poisoning), colitis mercurialis (mercurial colitis). (various references) | |
Dutch | mercurieel ptyalisme (mercurial ptyalism, salivation disease), mercurialisme (hydrargyrosis, mercurial poisoning, mercurialism, mercury poisoning), tremor mercurialis (hatter's shakes, hatter's tremours, hatters'shakes, hatters'tremour, mercurial tremour, shakes, tetanus mercurialis), kwikcolitis (mercurial colitis), hypersialorrhoe bij chronische kwikintoxicatie (mercurial ptyalism, salivation disease), hydrargyrosis (hydrargyrosis, mercurial poisoning, mercurialism, mercury poisoning), hydrargyrisme (hydrargyrosis, mercurial poisoning, mercurialism, mercury poisoning), colitis mercurialis (mercurial colitis). (various references) | |
Finnish | lisääntynyt syljeneritys (mercurial ptyalism, salivation disease), elohopeamyrkytykseen liittyvä vapina (hatter's shakes, hatter's tremours, hatters'shakes, hatters'tremour, mercurial tremour, shakes, tetanus mercurialis). (various references) | |
French | mercuriel, d'humeur inégale, d'humeur changeante. (various references) | |
German | wechselhaft (alternating, capricious, changeable, fickle, variable, vicissitudinous), sprunghaft (disjointed, jumpy, mushroom, rapid, sharp, spasmodic, volatile), quicklebendig (as fresh as a daisy), quecksilberhaltig, quecksilber-, lebhaft (agile, animated, bouncy, breezy, brisk, briskly, chirpy, eager, feisty, fresh, frisky, gay, lively, mobile, quick, quicksilver, spiritedly, sprightly, vivace, vivacious, vivid, vividly). (various references) | |
Greek | υδραργυρικόσ (mercuric), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), ευμετάβλητοσ (changeable, fickle, mutable, protean, variable), άστατοσ (capricious, fickle, flighty, floater, inconstant, tergiversator, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, volatile, whiffler). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זריז (adroit, agile, alert, dexterous, nimble, quick, spanking, swift), כספיתי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fürge (agile, beany, brisk, deft, fleet, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, perky, quick, rattling, smart, spry, swift), találékony (artful, good contriver, ingenious, inventive, knacky, originative, resourceful), szemfüles (to be up to snuff, vigilant, watchful), nem megbízható, mozgékony (beany, chipper, corky, dapper, go ahead, go-ahead, mobile, motile, movable, nimble, nippy, snappy, to be full of beans), leleményes (daedal, gumptious, have the bump for invention, inventive, resourceful), kereskedelmi (commercial, commercial case, mercantile, merchant, trade, trading), ingatag (fickle, flighty, fugacious, labile, mutable, precarious, sandy, shaky, shilly-shally), higanyos, higany-, fürge észjárású, eleven eszű (quick of understanding), élénk (active, adroit, agile, alert, alive, animated, astir, bobbish, breezy, brisk, busy, cant, canty, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, frisky, high colour, keen, live, lively, loud cheers, nimble, nippy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy of the soil, rattling, saucy bit, skittish, spruce, to be in high spirits, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warm), állhatatlan (changeable, fickle, flighty, hoity toity, inconsistent, inconstant, quavery, skittish, to blow hot a cold). (various references) | |
Italian | mutevole (changeable, changing, fickle, flighty, inconstant, mutable, protean, shifting, variable), eccitabile (excitable, jumpy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ercurialmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mercurial (mercury), vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), relativo a mercúrio, que contém mercúrio, preparação mercurial. (various references) | |
Romanian | vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), persoanã vioaie (Goblin), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), isteţ (adroit, clever, cunning, cute, fast, forward, natty, perspicacious, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-sighted, smart, spirited), focos (ardent, fiery, high-mettled, hot tempered, match, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, spirited), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), ager (active, acute, agile, clever, cute, fast, lively, mettlesome, quick, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited, understanding). (various references) | |
Russian | ртутный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nestalan (changeable, erratic, fickle, fleeting, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, shifty, skittish, transient, unabiding, unsteady, versatile, volatile, voluble), živin, živahan (abuzz, active, cheery, effervescent, live, merry, perky, pert, spirited, sprightly, vivacious). (various references) | |
Spanish | mercurial (dog's mercury). (various references) | |
Swedish | livlig (adroit, agile, alert, animate, animated, brisk, bubbly, buckish, high pitched, intense, keen, kittenish, lively, mettlesome, nimble, pert, racy, rousing, snappy, vital, vivacious, volatile), kvicksilver-. (various references) | |
Turkish | değişken (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, erratic, factor, fickle, fitful, flexible, flexile, fluid, fluxional, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, inequable, labile, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, sliding, streaked, streaky, swinging, uncertain, unfunded, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, versatile), dakikası dakikasına uymayan, canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), cıvalı, cıva gibi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ртутний, непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flighty, impermanent, instable, non-permanent, shifting, unstable, unsteady, variant, volatile, voluble, weathercock), моторний (adroit, agile, alert, dapper, dashing, deft, dexterous, lissome, lithesome, motor, nimble, nippy, ready, spry, volant). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhanh trí hay thay đổi, không kiên định (chameleonic, fickle, instable, mutable, seesaw, unstable, unsteadfast), hoạt bát (alert, bright, chipper, chirpy, dapper, quick, spry, up-and-coming, vivacious, volatile), đ"ng bóng (capricious, fizgig, freakish, moonish). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mercurial": mercurially, mercurialness, mercurialnesses, mercurials. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mercurial": nonmercurial, organomercurial. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mercurial": organomercurials. (additional references) | |
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"Mercurial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cercaria, cercariae, macrura, marcusian, mecurial, Mercardier, mercunial, mercurail, mercure, mercurical, mercurie, mercurii, Mercurio, mercutial, merkusii. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mercurial" (pronounced merkyuh"rēul) |
| 4 | -r ē u l | industrial, actuarial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, burial, cereal, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, terrestrial, territorial, janitorial, magisterial, malarial, managerial, material, memorial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, tutorial, venereal, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, testimonial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: auricle, claimer, curlier, marlier, miracle, reclaim, uraemic. | |
-3 letters: aculei, aecium, almuce, armure, calmer, carrel, cerium, crural, curare, curari, curiae, curial, curler, currie, eclair, irreal, lacier, macule, mailer, malice, marcel, mauler, racier, railer, remail, rulier, uracil, uremia, uremic. | |
-4 letters: aimer, airer, amice, areic, ariel, armer, aulic, aurei, auric, camel, carer, carle, ceria, claim, clear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: mercurials, vermicular. | |
+2 letters: mariculture, mercurially. | |
+3 letters: maricultures, nonmercurial, semicircular. | |
+4 letters: circumstellar, mercurialness, supercriminal, vernacularism. | |
+5 letters: intermolecular, intramolecular, multicharacter, supercriminals, ultramicrotome, vernacularisms. | |
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