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Index — Chapter Words Relating to Matter (Part 8 of 8)

    Tobacco - pipe, pipe, briar, meerschaum, calabash, corn-cob, clay pipe, clay, church-warden, dudeen, nose-warmer, cutty, hookah, hubble - bubble, chibouque, narghile, calumet.

3°. Imperfect Fluids
  • Semiliquidity (Substantives), pulpiness, viscidity, viscosity, ropiness, sliminess, gumminess, gummosity, siziness, clamminess, mucosity, spissitude, lentor, thickness, crassitude.
  • Inspissation, thickening, incrassation.

    Jelly, mucilage, gelatine, mucus, gum, colloid, albumen, size, milk, cream, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, dope, glycerine.

    (Verbs). To inspissate, thicken, incrassate, jelly, jellify, mash, squash, churn, beat up, pulp.

    (Adjectives). Semi-fluid, semi-liquid, milky, emulsive, creamy, curdy, thick, succulent, squashy.

    Gelatinous, albuminous, gummy, colloid, amylaceous, mucilaginous, glairy, slimy, ropy, stringy, clammy, glutinous 46, viscid, viscous, sticky, slab, slabby, sizy, lentous, tacky.

  • Mixture of air and water.
  • Bubble (Substantives), foam, froth, head, spume, lather, bleb, spray, spindrift, surf, yeast, barm, suds.

    Cloud, vapour, fog, mist, haze, scud, rack, cumulus, cirrus, stratus, etc.

    Science of clouds, Nephelology.

    Effervescence, foaming, mantling, fermentation, frothing, etc.

    A spray, atomiser, vaporiser.

    (Verbs). To bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle, effervesce, ferment.

    (Adjectives). Bubbling, etc., frothy, yeasty, barmy, nappy, effervescent, boiling, fermenting, sparkling, mantling, mousseux.

  • Pulpiness (Substantives), pulp, paste, dough, curd, pap, pudding, poultice, soup, squash, mud, slush, rob, jam, preserve.
  • Unctuousness (Substantives), unctuosity, oiliness, greasiness, slipperiness, lubricity.
  • Lubrication 332, anointment, unction.

    (Verbs). To oil, grease, anoint, wax, lubricate.

    (Adjectives). Unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous, fat, fatty, greasy, waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous.

  • Oil (Substantives), fat, butter, margarine, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping, blubber, pomatum, pomade, stearin, lanoline, vaseline, soap, wax, spermaceti, adipocere, ointment, unguent, liniment; paraffin, kerosene, petroleum, petrol, etc.