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alcohol

Alcohol is a 7 letter word which starts with the letter A and ends with the letter L for which we found 4 definitions.

Definition
(n.) An impalpable powder.
(n.) The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
(n.) Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature which have undergone vinous fermentation.
(n.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil etc.

Syllable Information

The word alcohol is a 7 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for alcohol is: al-co-hol


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