Word Meanings - ENDECANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum.

• Constituent
  Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
• Highering
  Rising higher; ascending.
• Foundation
  The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
• Paraffine
  A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong
• Foundationer
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• Petroleum
  Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a comple
• Foundationless
  Having no foundation.
• HIGHERCRITICISM
  Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism. The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts . . . introduces u
• HIGHERTHOUGHT
  See New thought, below.

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