Word Meanings - NAPHTHALENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline.

• Numberous
  Numerous.
• Whitebait
  The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
• White-foot
  A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
• Whites
  Leucorrh/a.
• Whitewood
  The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• WHITEEYE
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-e
• Certain
  Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
• WHITESLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• Large-acred
  Possessing much land.
• Numbers
  pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• Whitebeam
  The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
• White friar
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Whiteside
  The golden-eye.
• Whitewort
  Wild camomile.
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• WHITEFACE
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.

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