Uracil

Definition: Uracil

Uracil

Noun

1. A nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine.

Domain	Definition
Biology & Biotechnology	A nitrogenous base normally found in RNA but not DNA; uracil is capable of forming a base pair with adenine. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called alkylating agents. (references)
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Uracil is one of the four major bases in RNA, replacing thymine as found in DNA. Just like thymine, uracil can form a base pair with adenine via two hydrogen bonds, but it lacks the methyl group present in thymine.

Uracil is also known as 2-oxy-4-oxy pyrimidine.

Crosswords: Uracil

English words defined with "uracil": adenine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "uracil": Bromouracil ♦ Deoxyuracil Nucleotides ♦ Pyrimidines ♦ Uracil Mustard, Uridine Diphosphate, Uridine Monophosphate, Uridine Phosphorylase, Uridine Triphosphate. (references)

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

Portuguese (uracil).

Domain	Title
Books	X-ray structural studies on metal complexes of uracil and orotic acid : a survey of coordination induced changes in the uracil fragment (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression using "uracil": Uracil Mustard. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "uracil": Uracil-c.
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Language		Translations for "uracil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		uracilreparation (uracil repair). (various references)

Dutch		herstel van het uracil (uracil repair). (various references)

Finnish		urasiilikorjautuminen (uracil repair). (various references)

French		uracile. (various references)

German		Uracil. (various references)

Greek		ουρασίλη. (various references)

Italian		uracile. (various references)

Pig Latin		aciluray

Portuguese		uracil. (various references)

Spanish		reparación del uracilo (uracil repair). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "uracil": uracils. (additional references)
	Words ending with "uracil": bromouracil, fluorouracil, thiouracil. (additional references)
	Words containing "uracil": bromouracils, fluorouracils, thiouracils. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: curial.
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-r-u"
	-1 letter: aulic, auric, curia, urial.
	-2 letters: aril, carl, caul, curl, laic, lair, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial, uric.
	-3 letters: ail, air, arc, car, cur, lac, lar, ria.
	-4 letters: ai, al, ar, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-r-u"
	+1 letter: auricle, crucial, curtail, uracils.
	+2 letters: acervuli, acicular, auricled, auricles, auricula, avicular, circular, cislunar, culinary, cultivar, curtails, lubrical, multicar, peculiar, piacular, reticula, rubrical, rustical, spicular, surgical, turrical, uralitic, uranylic.
	+3 letters: actuarial, antiulcer, articular, auctorial, auriculae, auricular, auriculas, binocular, caldarium, calvarium, canicular, capitular, circuital, circulars, circulate, corbicula, crucially, cuadrilla, cultivars, culturati, curricula, cursorial, curtailed, curtailer, curtilage, cuticular, dicumarol, druidical, formulaic, fumarolic, funicular, graticule, hydraulic, incurable, incurably, involucra, juridical, lacunaria, lubricant, lubricate, lucrative, mercurial, navicular, neuralgic, numerical, ocularist, orbicular, ossicular, peculiars, radicular, ranunculi, raunchily, reticular, revictual, rusticals, simulacra, simulacre, suctorial, surficial, tularemic, ultrachic, ultrarich, unclarity, unlyrical, utricular, vehicular, vesicular, victualer, virucidal.
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