absorbent

absorbent has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
• n.. Anything which absorbs.
• n.. Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
• n.. The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
• n.. a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
• a.. having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.); "as absorbent as a sponge"