Word Meanings - NITROGLYCERIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.

• Underbuy
  To buy at less than the real value or worth; to buy cheaper than.
• Underproduction
  The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply.
• Undercroft
  A subterranean room of any kind; esp., one under a church (see Crypt), or one used as a chapel or for any sacred purpose.
• Undersecretary
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• Underfaculty
  An inferior or subordinate faculty.
• Underside
  The lower or lowest side of anything.
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
• Undergone
  of Undergo
• Understood
  of Understand
• Diluter
  One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
• Underhanded
  Underhand; clandestine.
• Understudy
  To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
• Liquidamber
  See Liquidambar.
• Underlaid
  Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.
• Undertow
  The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
• Nitrated
  Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.
• Undermaster
  A master subordinate to the principal master; an assistant master.
• Underworking
  of Underwork

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