alcohol

alcohol has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him"
• n.. any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation