Metalloid is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter M and ends with the letter D for which we found 4 definitions.
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(n.) Formerly the metallic base of a fixed alkali or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium potassium and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined. |
(n.) Now one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals and whose compounds possess or produce acid rather than basic properties; a nonmetal; as boron carbon phosphorus nitrogen oxygen sulphur chlorine bromine etc. are metalloids. |
(a.) Having the appearance of a metal. |
(a.) Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative. |
The word metalloid is a 9 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for metalloid is: met-al-loid