Word Meanings - TRIDECATYLENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hydrocarbon, C13H26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from Burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; -- called also tridecylene, and tridecene.

• LIGHTSTRUCK
  Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Hydrocarbon
  A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
• Lighterman
  A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
• Light-minded
  Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
• Liquidate
  To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and
• Series
  A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
• LIGHTWEIGHT
  Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Hydrocarbonaceous
  Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.
• Light-fingered
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts.
• Lightness
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
• Liquidation
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.
• Tridecane
  A hydrocarbon, C13H28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid.
• LIGHTWINGED
  Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting. Shak.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

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